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
