“Chu Lai Cage”

by Leland Woodson

1.

Metal jacket round
Down flat in the mud the rain
Too late damn the pain

2.

Dunglai time to go
Little people smile but fear
Sand bag now still fear

3.

Today time has past
Letters come ask when what where
Did they go, done gone

 


Leland Woodson published a story called “Switzerland” in As You Were: The Military Review. It was also published in ‘The Red Badge Project’ in 2021. Another story titled “Coming Home!” has been published in an anthology titled Stories Deployed: the Veteran Chronicles, which came out in June 2021.