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Matthew Borczon
Saying Goodbye The worst thing about the war and all the years since is is how easily I fall back into formation a bad dream and I’m back on Camp Bastion wiping blood off a detainee’s skin graft a helicopter and I’m running out onto 18th and Sassafras looking for wounded at our local Polish American festival I got locked into the crosshairs by nothing more than the tent I was sitting in it has…
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There's some more terrific new poetry over at The Bees Are Dead ...
There’s some more terrific new poetry over at The Bees Are Dead …
Be sure to stop by and check out Strider Marcus Jones’ “The Samaritan Machine” and three new pieces by Matthew Borczon. The Bees Are Dead Photo credit: Des Blenkinsopp [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
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Ghost children
Night is a toothless mouth and I am an out of tune accordion heaving deep and wheezing loud after another nightmare full of ghost children and dead soldiers.
Matthew Borczonis a writer and nurse from Erie, PA. He was a sailor stationed in the busiest combat hospital in Afghanistan from 2010-11. He writes about what he saw and the problems he has had since coming home. His work has been published…
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Survival kit
In place of medication try prayer tears strong drink true love or anything you can wrap your arms and legs around try lies try truth try saint john’s wart try talking to a therapist try talking to nobody try keeping your ghosts inside your head they are already inside your nightmares and they rule there use long sleeves and dark socks to cover scars that show and a large glass jar to hold the scars
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Imminent danger pay
I made enough money in imminent danger pay to turn my 2 flats into one big house we blew a staircase right up from my kitchen and doubled the size so my sons and daughters could have their own rooms and now I have Lots of Room to Relive This war In.
Matthew Borczonis a writer and nurse from Erie, PA. He was a sailor stationed in the busiest combat hospital in Afghanistan from 2010-11. He writes…
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