Got an early Christmas present this morning in the form of an email. My poem titled “I Resist the Temptation” will be included in the anthology of verse titled Poetica 2 from Clarendon House Publications. Exact date is to be determined, but soon.
I wrote the poem, the first draft, in 1984 at Christmas. I was a young, wet-behind-the-ears Second Lieutenant with the U.S. Army stationed at Camp Hovey, Korea. It was the first time I’d spent the holidays away from family. However, not only was I away from home, but I was also on the other side of the world, and sleeping within artillery range of North Korea. We were a mere 15 miles from the DMZ.
Scott Macmann 