The Deployment Diaries

A collection of poems inspired by my husband, a combat medic, and his two deployments

Moving Pictures of Soldiers, and Goodbyes

( Something for my husband today. He is missed ) She sat silent, pressing palms together,while her head sky dives into psalms being said, by a girl in a movie, (talkie, talkie)
Cherry

Those Days When Cliches Seem Appropriate

No one wants to approach writing ,geared in some grease monkey’s backyard, like a jacked up Yugo thinking it’s a Benz. When I was a child I salvaged a word from the side of the road.
Cherry

The Effect of Resonance

The effect of resonance is a sipping of her, sipping of here, sipping through hands; hands, cupped bone as years pour scores in an over flowing rhythm. It is a diaphragm of breathe, bathing

Home Cooked

Texas cracked my youth, like a plate in an angry kitchen, as I kept looking behind me, for some sign, or marker rising- To fathers who waited for phone calls, ringing