Tag Archives: PTSD

Birthday

Posted on March 1, 2013 by amalieflynn

When you came home from war, You gave me a stone shaped like a heart, A piece of rock mined in Afghanistan, That you bought in a marketplace in Kabul, Before they sent you home to America, A stone called … Continue reading →

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Ventricle

Posted on February 14, 2013 by amalieflynn

When a soldier deploys to war, He goes to a country with Bombs and bullets, and wears Kevlar body armor, with plates, A ballistic chest plate covering His heart, And when a soldier patrols a town, He carries his M4, … Continue reading →

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Beautiful

Posted on December 31, 2012 by amalieflynn

We are standing near the computer, And I am showing my son a photograph, Taken in the Arctic Ocean by scientists, Of the ocean, where there are frost flowers As far as you can see, tiny blossoms of ice, On … Continue reading →

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Slide

Posted on November 27, 2012 by amalieflynn

I am reading The Blue Cascade, A book by a Marine I know, who went to war in Iraq, And was an artillery liaison officer, Attached to an infantry battalion, And a forward observer, who Made the radio call for … Continue reading →

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Tissue

Posted on October 15, 2012 by amalieflynn

There is an Afghan journalist, Living in Kabul and in this war, And he tells me about his injuries, How he has six fresh shrapnel wounds, And two bullet wounds that are healing, And I am mowing the lawn, Here, … Continue reading →

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Snap

Posted on September 25, 2012 by amalieflynn

When my husband goes to war He walks out of a door, and Into the darkness of our front lawn, With grass curling around his feet Like snakes, and the street is a river, This foreign territory, now, Now that … Continue reading →

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Country

Posted on August 1, 2012 by amalieflynn

America is at war, my oldest son, Says, just seven years old, now, And I am unloading a dishwasher, Taking out china plates that are Clean like faces, and stacking them. And they are teaching him about war, At school, … Continue reading →

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Fourth

Posted on July 4, 2012 by amalieflynn

I am thinking about war today, About how war happens, and What it does, about the bodies, Bodies of men, women, or Children, their clothes bloody, Always lined up in rows, faces Covered with blankets, lined up On the ground … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Afghanistan, America, bodies, bombs, couples, death, deployment, fourthofjuly, fourthofjuly2012, grief, home, husband, Iraq, marriage, military, military wife, mourning, poetry, politics, post traumatic stress, PTSD, relationships, soldier, TBI, traumatic brain injury, VBIED, veteran, war, widow, wife, wifeandwar | 3 Comments

Wash

Posted on June 11, 2012 by amalieflynn

I am standing in my dark garage, Unloading a washing machine, facing a concrete wall, and I am pulling the clothing out, out of the washing machine, A shirt by the left arm, a pair of pants by one leg, … Continue reading →

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Skin

Posted on June 5, 2012 by amalieflynn

The first time I saw Afghanistan, It was lying across my television screen, A country made of war, or How it looks ancient, we both said, to each other, Our bodies, here, still here, stretching across a bed, Because it … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Afghanistan, America, couples, deployment, home, husband, Iraq, land, marriage, military, mourning, organs, post traumatic stress, PTSD, relationships, scar, skin, soldier, TBI, traumatic brain injury, war, wife, wifeandwar | Leave a comment

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