War Bird by David Gewanter

Author:David Gewanter
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

—Thom Gunn, “The Wound”

THE STATES

For he can creep.

Whose doctor said his bipolar was pre-existing.

Smacked in the head by a steel cargo door,

hinges tied with a hamburger bag.

The day he blew up: a sucking silence, mouth of tar,

story told over and over,

bump and rattle, caissons rolling.

The blacked-out school bus window is

scratched to read ghost recon. Street signs flash by,

“This here is Georgia. Now I see New Hampshire,

and here’s Colorado.” What country is this city?

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