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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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