Greg: Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan

It was a mean

while, and fuckin’ warm,

 

as we swarmed

a pact-racket of battle-hungry

rag-tag, mis-fits

 

when it all kettles

into sky.

 

~

 

Breath rattled,

I pulls Vincent through his cloud

 

flak-jack torn, back

behind a mud clump wall

 

as bullets

holed the air.