Camouflage
Elaine Fowler Palencia
On a road in
apple-cheeked children
drive in convoy
an endless line
of high-shouldered Army trucks
loud as kettledrums.
Trucks and drivers
dressed for a jungle war
in patchy black green brown and dun
they are pinned
on the pale Midwestern prairie
like tin cut-outs
in a shooting gallery.
Snaking towards them
low to the ground
seethes the fog of war.
Elaine Fowler
Palencia is the author of two poetry
chapbooks, Taking the Train (Grex Press, 1997) and The
Dailiness of It (Grex
Press, 2002) and has received one Pushcart nomination for a poem as well as an