MOTHERS OVER NANGARHAR
 | SARABANDE BOOKSLouisville, KY |
Copyright © 2018 by Pamela Hart
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No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hart, Pamela, author.
Title: Mothers over Nangarhar : poems / Pamela Hart.
Description: First edition. | Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017058703 (print) | LCCN 2017059930 (e-book)
ISBN 9781946448279 (e-book) | ISBN 9781946448262 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Classification: LCC PS3608.A7866 (e-book) | LCC PS3608.A7866 A6 2018 (print) DDC 811/.6—DC23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017058703
Cover and interior design by Alban Fischer.
Cover image © prill/iStock
Manufactured in Canada.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Sarabande Books is a nonprofit literary organization.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports Sarabande Books with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
FOR MY FAMILY
Arriving from always, you’ll go away everywhere
—RIMBAUD
CONTENTS
The Cut
In the Red Cross Parking Lot after a Meeting on PTSD
Sometimes We Talk about Nothing
The Shawl
Landays for Alaha
The Matins Project
Grace Watches the News and Is Unable to Sleep
During War We Email Our Soldiers
Contour Drawing
Museum
Land Navigation
In the Car
Numerous Gray Areas
Praise Song
Looking at Monet’s Water Lilies
On the Orange Jumpsuit
My Soldier
War Stories
Birds Rising Are a Sign of Ambush
Night Vision
Mothers Over Nangarhar
Drone Song
Private Jonathan Lee Gifford’s Mother
Kevlar Poem
Regarding the Improvised Explosive Device
Black Ice
American Mother
Birds Gather on Empty Ground
Field Notes from Home
Kevlar Poem II
Soldier Undated World War I
Rules of Engagement
The Map Is Not the Territory
Coming Home
