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Issue 14 – WITNESS
Peace Talks
A bear's cold hunger consumes, deaf to pleas. Power's ego silences peace, others' dreams unheard.
January 4, 2026
Or does it?
Seferis knew
talking does no good.
When a polar bear
scorns
a walrus
wants their minerals
land
children
and confers no value
beyond its own ego,
who can change the attitude of those with power?
The bear will not choose kelp to save a seal.
A million men can be snuffed
easier than a lone village candle.
Only one who values what is lost
will talk of peace.
Seferis understood:
Each dreams separately
without hearing anyone else’s nightmare.
Seferis, George. “Salamis in Cyprus.” Collected Poems. Trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Princeton UP, 1995. 190-92.
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Stan Galloway
Stan Galloway writes from the hills of West Virginia (USA). He is the author/(co-)editor of 9 collections, most recently Savor: Poems for the Tongue (Friendly City Books, 2024).