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Subject CNN Report: Rise in Sexual Assault, Reprisals in the Military (2016)
Date November 9, 2019 1:00 AM
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CNN REPORT: RISE IN SEXUAL ASSAULT, REPRISALS IN THE MILITARY (2016)
 
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Karen Skolfield
April 1, 2017
As You Were: The Military Review
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_ Poet and Army veteran Karen Skolfield sees sexual assault in the
military that “no one takes…seriously.” _

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CNN Report: Rise in Sexual Assault, Reprisals in the Military (2016)

By Karen Skolfield

It’s not just the stars

these last mornings

I failed to see.

No light pollution.

My flashlight

the walk’s metronome.

Consider how no one takes

the stories of stars seriously

these days. The journalist

asked me what I thought

of my time in the military.

It’s the motion of a deer

that catches my eye,

makes me look back and see

a sunrise I almost missed.

Blazing and violent,

and once it’s gone,

no evidence it ever existed.

“CNN Report: Rise in Sexual Assault, Reprisals in the Military
(2016)” reprinted from _Battle Dress: Poems. _Copyright © 2019 by
Karen Skolfield. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton &
Company, Inc. All rights reserved.

Karen Skolfield’s book _Battle Dress_ (W. W. Norton, 2019) won the
Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her book _Frost in the Low Areas_ (Zone 3
Press) won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry, and she is the
winner of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in poetry from
_The Missouri Review_. Skolfield is a U.S. Army veteran and teaches
writing to engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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