A soldier's Arabic
1: The Baghdad zoo
Hwy I
In the Leupold scope
The Al Harishma weapons market
What every soldier should know
The hurt locker
Observations post #71
Here, Bullet
Body bags
AB negative (the surgeon's poem)
Two stories down
Ashbah
Into the elephant grass
Eulogy
2: Kirkuk oilfield, 1927
Trowel
Where the telemetries end
Autopsy
Repatriation day
Najaf, 1820
For vultures: a dystopia
16 Iraqi policemen
Dreams from the malaria pills (barefoot)
Katyusha rockets
R&R
Dreams from the malaria pills (Bosch)
How bright it is
3: Alhazen of Basra
Easel
Observation post #798
2000 lbs.
Dreams from the malaria pills (Turner)
Curfew
4: Mihrab
Milh
Gilgamesh, in fossil relief
Tigris river blues
Ferris wheel
Sadiq
Jameel
Last night's dream
Cole's guitar
9-line medevac
Night in blue
Caravan
To sand.