Poem of the day – “It Starts With Sand”

January 26, 2010 |13:41 | Poem of the Day By : Team X

A very good war poem for ya, by a Hampstead resident. The dryness, tension, danger in Afghanistan captured in a few lines, through a soldier’s eyes.It starts with sand-
Rock, mud
saturate dry air.

Glass cracks and webs.
Steel snaps.
Shards fire into reeds.

Fingers drop to
triggers.
rifles scan as

The pulse penetrates
armor,
Funneling past parched lips

Through stiff chests,
further
Deep into stomachs

Flooding muscle
marrow.
Discharging to legs, toes.

Running in the veins,
always with the blood.