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SOMETHING LIKE SCARECROWS
Israel Pilgrimage—2006
We drive up
and up
to what seems
to be
the top of
the world
and when we can
drive
no farther,
we walk
to the
observation deck
of an old
bunker
atop Mount
Bental
in the Golan
Black
silhouettes—
metal die cut-outs
of armed
soldiers
rifles cocked
and ready
are
strategically situated
at the summit
to warn of
Israel’s surefire preparedness
against any
who would attack
the apple of
God’s eye
deterrents—
like those
vigilant
floppy-hatted
scarecrows
stuffed with
straw
poised to
protect our crops
like the flat
black metal hound dogs
I’ve seen wired
to fences
in cemeteries
and parks
to chase the
Canada geese
Col. Shalom tells
us
when he was
twenty
he was given
command
of sixty-four
men, his age
It was here—
It was 1967
It was the
Six Day War
2000 tanks
from Syria,
Jordan
Egypt and
Iraq
versus
Israel’s 200
Israel was
victorious
It was
miraculous
…and yet
he still
hears
haunting
cries in the night
of a wounded brother
soldier
Maude Carolan
Pych
Note: This Yom Kippur (2023) marks 50 years since the war in 1973.
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