Published in Five Fleas, 2.12.24

field trip

urban kids learn

where milk comes from

~John J. Dunphy

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high school activist

her yearbook photo

her first mug shot

~John J. Dunphy

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the felon’s fingerprints

lifted from

a baby bottle

~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.