A Shau Valley

A Shau Valley

we were going
where men died.
helicopters
ferried us
to the green infinity.

we carried so much.
it was hard
to move
under the weight.

one chopper
landed,
and another.
then the fire came.

I was choking
on fear
as we were strewn
into those impossible
mountains.

some of me
never made it
home.