by Tom Puetz | Nov 11, 2022 | Poetry
More Than Flowers I heard it firstThe hummingbirdThen saw it Backlit by the setting sun it hoveredSnatching insects from the airMy hardened heart thus openedIt’s message given and received Shattered souls and hummingbirdsMore than flowers need © Tom Puetz... 
by Jerry Wesch | May 14, 2022 | Poetry
The Monster In the Museum of his healed-up mind Is a DCU-clad Monster, covered up with blood and gore In a glass case neatly labeled: “Break In Case Of War” By Jerry E Wesch Psychologist,... 
by Tom Puetz | Jun 4, 2015 | Costs of War
My life was once defined by violence. My experience as an infantry sergeant in the Vietnam War has blessed me with the belief that It is not enough to feel compassion. I must be compassionate. It is not enough to feel love. I must perform loving acts. To break the... 
by Tom Puetz | Apr 26, 2015 | Costs of War
Killing in combat is inevitable. In the Vietnam War it was a priority. “Body count” was the order of the day every day. To kill a fellow human is unnatural. The result of overcoming that moral aversion and killing a man is a – moral injury – an...