a rare moment in warfare

A Rare Moment in Warfare

The chieftain came
riding out of
the trees &
across the
corpse-strewn
field in Germania,
bareback on a
candy-striped
unicorn.

 

The Roman general
raised an arm,
& the archers
held their fire.

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