Field Surgeon Remembering, [in Small Packages]
From his garden, he hears young men prowl in their cars, Arms captured in a circling crush, Hears their music blasting, Down the stethoscope the beat is strong. They U with screaming rubber. He begins again, the third time tonight, the needle circling. The metal cut deep in. The wound is sutured over staying the scar. He wonders, from his garden, if the tank tracks are Still there, snailing among the rosy flesh. He remembers the bodies and how he stitched Deliberate tank tracks across the skin, The needle circling, the thread drawing torn flesh together. He thinks, “there is no perfect rose.” |
"I saw an angel..." was written the day that war was declared on Iraq.
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