Galway Kinnell is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. A native of Rhode Island, he currently resides in Vermont and New York. Perhaps my favorite poem of his begins with a clear, lucid description of the natural beauty of a pond in New England, with the last line of the first stanza describing the reflection of the SAC bomber traversing the sky above it. It continues with a description of Vietnam. This poem captures the essential contradictions of the Cold War perfectly for me; the discussion of quiet nature and the quiet (not blaring) intrusion of technology and war.

The poem is Vapor Trail in the Frog Pond, btw.