Laura Zucca-Scott’s most recent poem to appear here was In Your Eyes (February 2015).
Still Burning
By Laura Zucca-Scott
At war
Broken
Fires still burning
Huddling
They seek
Survival
In a day,
A moment
Of ordinary life
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Still Burning
03.25.15 Posted in today's words by Annmarie Lockhart
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