Published in Cantos, issue 30

wedding anniversary

man sends a card to his wife

from prison

— John J. Dunphy

the panhandler’s cup

filled with

more rain than coins

— John J. Dunphy

John J. Dunphy’s poetry collections include Old Soldiers Fading Away, Zen Koanhead, Touching Each Tree, pagan rites, Bullet Cluster, Stellar Possibility and Dark Nebulae. He is also the author of non-fiction works such as Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials: The Investigative Work of the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, 1945–1947.