It’s Just Eight Weeks
“I needed back on base do push-ups sit-ups run swim no matter how much it hurt I didn’t care if I passed out I wanted anything but this moment I needed boot and push all day no home because at home I’d have to deal with these mistakes these losses for the rest of my life. But I will somehow because that’s the man I’ve become.”
*Thanks to As You Were: The Military Review for publishing my first poem!
Coast Guard Search and Rescue of the Tugboat Beth McAllister
“8AM November 6th, 2011. A line was taught
in my hand. I couldn’t scrape
couldn’t wait to wipe, Darek’s bile
that bathed my tongue. Stomach acid ate
away as I was told, keep the line taught until moored.
Until a final stand down after eight lives were saved.”
Ode to Leeroy Jenkins
“The party exits the computer room yelling “LEEEEROY JEEEEENKINSS” in unison, pumped to stumble through life, because in this moment they know they have each other forever.”
Soak In A Digital Bath
