‘A Poem for Patriots’ and ‘Upside the Morning’

Two books by Mark Terrill have arrived with ekphrastic poems of enormous appeal: The Salvador-Dali-Lama Express, a slim volume of 32 poems, attractively produced in 2009 by Main Street Rag Publishing Company, and Great Balls of Doubt, a collection of 96 poems with illustrations by Jon Langford, published in 2020 by Verse Chorus Press.
Here are two poems with images from daily life and the thoughts they arouse, both excerpted from The Salvador-Dali-Lama Express.Main Street Rag’s Editor&rsq