Policeman's Dreaming

This evening he sees
that through the wire
the women's camp is quiet.
The heat is off.
He thinks that if he did not have this job

he would lose everything he knows;
he and his wife and kids
would have no place
to stand securely.
The banners make the fence a gallery
the women's weaving, tangled in the wire

with ribbons, messages and toys
a serendipity of peace
a boundary between reality and dream
(depending on which way you look at it)

Finding himself alone,
he sings "Give peace a chance"
Wendy Poussard
Pine Gap 1984
Groundswell #16, October 1985