DPF / Lincoln

For President’s Day, from his book, The Poems of Abraham Lincoln.

from My Childhood Home I See Again / by Abraham Lincoln

My childhood home I see again,
        And sadden with the view;
And still, as memory crowds my brain,
        There’s pleasure in it too.

DPF / Hugo

War, dreams, home.

from In Your War Dream / by Richard Hugo

You ask, “Why must I do this again?” A man
replies, “Home.” You fly over one country
after another. The nations are bright, like a map.