Anthony Ramirez
Two Poems

BAGGAGE

From the open freight,
with the other boozed stowaways,
he glares at the blurred landscape.
His pocket doesn't clink with change anymore,
but carries his only possession...
a pair of rolling dice.


FORGOTTEN

Sitting on the concrete sidewalk
with his un-amputated arm stretched,
toward a few good pennies.
People just pass unrecognizing
the long-ago purple heart he wears.