evidence of flinch, (my) flinching learned to pull a trigger strapping up perhaps, there is (was) a war & the (Right’s wrong) Trump (is) coming for people (othered) like me. evidence of flinch, (my flinching) the Glock was heavy loaded, loud. recoil a surprise. steady. breathe. release. bulls (eye). bulls (eye).
My great uncle is famous for losing. It was a big loss and a historical win at the same time. He lost to this man – Don Budge grand slam champ in 1940. Uncle Jimmy was the ATA tennis champ at the time. I wonder what it is like to be a famous loser/winner? …
I took this picture while during research at Arlington Memorial, the site of the Women in Military Service for America memorial. I found this beautiful warrior glaring, thinking. I don’t know where she is, I don’t know where she was going. I imagine her in a helicopter enroute to a mission with her comrades, or …
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Family history had been a mystery to me prior to me “data mining” for my latest project “Moving Behind Moses – A poem celebrating African American Women’s Contributions to the United States Military”. My father didn’t talk much about his father, other than he left his mother. My father was actually raised by his grandmother …