prose poems by Lorene Delany-Ullman
From toy guns to weed-covered bunkers—this series of prose poems explore a speaker who has grown up in Southern California during the cold war, and asks: how much of us is a product of war? From this larger question, the poems examine how the franchise of war and violence pervade our quotidian lives, and the complicity that shapes the relationships between the speaker, her family, and her suburban hometown.