Five-Star Coward
Higgledy-Piggledy
President Neverserved
Praises armed forces yet
Slanders our vets.
“Suckers” and “losers” he
Undiplomatically
Chisels their epitaphs—
Oops, epithets.
Nicole Caruso Garcia (she/her) is the author of OXBLOOD (Able Muse Press), which received the International Book Award for narrative poetry. Her work appears in Best New Poets, Light, Mezzo Cammin, ONE ART, Plume, Rattle, RHINO, and elsewhere. She serves as associate poetry editor at Able Muse and as an executive board member at Poetry by the Sea, an annual poetry conference in Madison, CT. Visit her at nicolecarusogarcia.com.
The Marbled Sigh 