Since My Grandson's in the Army.

• Author: Carol, Steele
• Position: Poem - Poem

Since my grandson's in the army The hardest time is when I'm home alone. After breakfast, straightening the living room, stacking yesterdays newspapers or dusting the leather sofa where we read together weekends when he was small. He always surprised me at first glance because he looked exactly like my son. In photographs, I could tell them apart only by their clothes. As I fold the laundry, I enter the dust colored world of war. Over and over images layer in. A transport truck with the front end blown out, troops on foot clearing an area house by house, guns drawn. A soldier on a stretcher rushed into the operating bay, blood...