This poem is taken from Stand 246, 23(2) November 2025 - January 2026.

Christine McNeill Two Poems
The Man who Died
     i.m. Josef Schagerl 1923–2022
     
The man who died in his hundredth year
had made a giant machine gun from cubes of steel
he called warship.

Fighting in World War II, the sole survivor
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