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Poetry Pause: "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"

by Brittany Hickey on 2021-04-05T11:31:00-04:00 in English & Literature | 0 Comments

April is National Poetry Month. Each Monday we'll highlight one of our favorite poems here on the blog. Today's poem was chosen by Jane Tuttle, Library Director.

 

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

BY RANDALL JARRELL

From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,

And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.

Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,

I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.


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