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Rated: E · Poetry · Military · #1988063
Image poem about standing post during a training exercise.

Falling stars streak like
arrows through the archer's sky
A sentry stands
cradling a cold, black-steel infant,
observing the celestial fray
His boots,
frozen to the ground,
his bolts,
one with the half-filled quiver in the mag-well



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