Kurt Philip Behm

The Liars Fjord

A warrior can be an artist,

but can an artist go to war

 

Can the craftsman ever breathe the fire,

that tempered the blade he forged

 

The warrior-poet, not the poet-warrior,

the difference in the score

 

All fury then his words inspire,

—to bridge the liars fjord

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)