{"id":1451,"date":"2008-11-05T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2008-11-05T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T10:55:00","slug":"benjamin-buchholz-is-watching-for-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/benjamin-buchholz-is-watching-for-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Buchholz is watching for bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fuse <\/span>


Shift leader picked up a curbside stone. <\/span>
It did not explode. <\/span>

Shift leader picked up an MRE heater, <\/span>
tossed from the convoy. <\/span>
It did not explode. <\/span>

Shift leader picked up a prayer rug <\/span>
with the penitent pilgrim's <\/span>
chain rusted by platelet, forgotten; why? <\/span>
It did not explode. <\/span>

Shift leader picked up the body of a dog <\/span>
tarred to the pavement with blood and bone and frothing <\/span>
new, young maggots in the skull. <\/span>
It did not explode. <\/span>

Shift leader picked up a shredded tire, <\/span>
a tumbleweed, a fedora, buy accutane pills<\/a> (yes), the leg of a camel, like an absence, <\/span>
looking out over the wasteland toward <\/span>
whole camels, whole vistas, whole. <\/span>
It did not explode. <\/span>

Shift leader picked up a magazine, <\/span>
the marbled hatchwork of Kevlar, door, <\/span>
turned from the cartwheel sun all his hydrogen, oxygen, trace metals, <\/span>
the magic of modern chemistry can't <\/span>
Nobel in its mourning, laureate.<\/span>


* Benjamin Buchholz's fiction, non-fiction and poetry largely deal with war and the changes wrought by war in young men and women. For more details visit <\/span>http:\/\/benjaminbuchholz.blogspot.com<\/a>
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Fuse Shift leader picked up a curbside stone. It did not explode. Shift leader picked up an MRE heater, tossed from the convoy. It did not explode. Shift leader picked up a prayer rug with the penitent pilgrim's chain rusted by platelet, forgotten; why? It did not explode. Shift leader picked up the body of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}