In The Boot Camp Laundry Room

we rise, together, one more time

As I Clean My Rifle

I’m still tired from that last patrol

Two Poems by Steven Croft

Another day across the long valley road

Two Poems by Olivia Garard

here we lie our things in the
Graveyard of Empires

Two Poems by Ben Weakley

The stalls burst with baskets of figs and dates, the / smell of kebab lamb and warm naan.

To Read Death Like Braille

bleached white as bone

We Fight For Peace

We fight for some peace, but peace we have not.

I Read About You in the Paper

Colonels make speeches / in which they must mention / their spouses, feminine endurance, / a devotion to sacrifice.

Two Poems by Liam Corley

Now I understood / the bake sales for Dragon Skin Armor requested by buddies / who claimed that Army IBA failed after only one shot.

Two Poems by Lisa Stice

Routines fall into cadence, but still, / truth has a roguishness about it—

Two Poems by Tanya Whitney

You can never understand the cost my / Service has had on my body and soul.

Surprising God

You come home from the war... you are different now.