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Cool morning Push mower Shearing grass tops Rhythmic motion Mindless meditative work Temperature rising Air and body warming Salty sweat Beginning to flow Clipper trimming Stray branches Inch-long thorns Scratch and puncture Unprotected arms Blood mixing with sweat Rake lifting Leaves and twigs From green carpet Scent of mown grass Fatigue setting in Rest In…
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Bad dreams Nightmares A teenage boy Refrigerators Full of blood Fear (Don’t let them see) Responsibility Car bomb Six or more patients coming Type and cross Twenty units Ambulance arrives No lights No siren Hands, feet, torsos, heads Delivered in makeshift stretchers Made from olive drab blankets No survivors The job has shifted From saving…
Desert Dweller 