On Holy War by Truth Thomas How fragile is the congregation of flesh and quiet are corpses that litter the ground. I pass your service, after most of the guests have gone. A headless boy stops and asks me if he’s Israeli or a Palestinian’s son, and which of the bullets that struck him, was the holy one. Copyright 2023 by Truth Thomas
Truth Thomas is a singer-songwriter, poet, and photographer born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Washington, DC. He is the founder of Cherry Castle Publishing and studied creative writing at Howard University under Dr. Tony Medina. Thomas earned his MFA in poetry at New England College. The creator of the “Skinny” poetry form, his collections include Party of Black, A Day of Presence, Bottle of Life, and Speak Water, winner of the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. His poems have appeared in over 150 publications, including The 100 Best African American Poems (edited by Nikki Giovanni).
