SHRAPNEL
A chunk of death spins beside me on dried mud, [...]
Some night they didn’t know where they were and didn’t [...]
From my jeep in a convoy grinding through the base [...]
Scrape a flounder on a new piece of lumber. Crack [...]
There was me, the Vietnamese and the rat. The [...]
Let’s hear it for Alphonso, going home at last, goddamn [...]
The ghost shivers in one corner of the room like [...]
Free falling five feet, M-16 and grenade outstretched as he [...]