![Horizontal close up of metal plates attached to a building.](https://iowareview.org/sites/iowareview.org/files/styles/landscape__500x375_/public/jerrit-peinelt-379545.jpg?itok=98A-reHv)
Photo by Jerrit Peinelt
small shard of metal brazed
on a stainless steel chain,
122mm rocket shrapnel, not quite
a trapezoid, dug out of a post
where it lodged one night, 10"
from my head while i slept,
more a trapezium, same
shrapnel that killed michael, other
side of our hooch, quadrilateral
with no parallel sides, size
of a c-ration lima bean maybe