Blanket Party*
I remember:
male faces
lost inside kappa
sigma epsilon jackets
the blankets they threw
out of bedroom windows
the day before the party
she
never came back
from
the smiles they wore
that one boy
who stood ready to jump
like the unfortunate man
who supervised the
sewing girls
that went to work that day
locked behind factory doors
and
fell
a heap of blankets
strewn on the sidewalk
below the open
workroom windows
* After Walter Sanders’ photo, originally published in the May 26, 1941 issue of LIFE magazine.
About the Poet:
Annmarie Lockhart is the founding editor of vox poetica, an online literary salon dedicated to poetry, and Unbound Content, an independent poetry press. A lifelong Bergen County, New Jersey resident, she lives, writes, and works two miles from the hospital where she was born. You can read her words at fine journals online and in print.
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