in the crackle of burning paper
lost prayers on asphalt
smoke rising into seas unknowable
your answer god
god is war
(in 1968 daniel berrigan, phillip berrigan, david darst, john hogan, tom lewis, marjorie melville, thomas melville, george mische, and mary moylan seized draft records from a draft office at the catonsville knights of columbus building and burned them in the parking lot)
