Here, Bullet by Brian Turner

Author:Brian Turner [Turner, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938584145
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2014-09-01T06:00:00+00:00

Sgt. Ledouix of the National Guard

speaks but cannot hear the words coming out,

and it’s just as well his eardrums ruptured

because it lends the world a certain calm,

though the traffic circle is filled with people

running in panic, their legs a blur

like horses in a carousel, turning

and turning the way the tires spin

on the Humvee flipped to its side,

the gunner’s hatch he was thrown from

a mystery to him now, a dark hole

in metal the color of sand, and if he could,

he would crawl back inside of it,

and though his fingertips scratch at the asphalt

he hasn’t the strength to move:

shrapnel has torn into his ribcage

and he will bleed to death in minutes,

but he finds himself surrounded by a strange

beauty, the shine of light on the broken,

a woman’s hand touching his face, tenderly

the way his wife might, amazed to find

a wedding ring on his crushed hand,

the bright gold sinking in flesh

going to bone.

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