Battle Dress by Karen Skolfield

Author:Karen Skolfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epub3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Manassas

Even in sunlight the darkness mixed in—

the dark of pupils, black vacuum of our mouths,

open because we’ve forgotten to close them,

because it’s no longer important. Because we’re left

at the creek with our tongues circling a slip of water.

Because our bodies are dumb animals

that bleat like sheep, that die like sheep

with one thin, final scream that barely stirs the grass.

Because our bodies move on without us.

Listen. The ringing from the hills. A man stands

like a stone wall, crushes the red clover and brome

that bayonets the air. The eight-inch cannons,

plugged shut, carry an old heat within. A plastic

lens cap is lost on the field, and in the foreground,

tourists blink in and out of the wall of fog.

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