Steven Minchin’s most recent poem to appear here was “Right to Forward” (May 2018).
Promise Land Spoils
By Steven Minchin
once we were inside
Jericho
we missed the walls
and kept
marching around
admitting
our distaste
for milk
and battling
Honey
all those thoughts
gone
and back then
again
again those thoughts
back then
when we were warriors
unified
marching around
chanting
until walls came
down
locking us in Jericho
eventually
leaving us with nothing
to become
but lovers circling
jaded
after triumph
in Canaan
and years
in formation