Under Barbed Wire

We watch them crawling necks on earth.

Barged wire scratching and pricking backs.

Ranger school promo video demonstration of a snake, subtle and in war; while you my army sun, crawl on your stomach, so will I.

Trying hard to avoid pain of barbs.  Through a ranger challenge or different sort.  Chemo and radiation - an ordeal of strength, a trial of fitness and the irradiation of weakness.

As I think of you this spring sun, please also think of me.  Both of us face in the mud.