{"id":1982,"date":"2006-11-12T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/11\/12\/for-the-poppies-blossoming-on-shirts-like-gunshot-wounds-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2006-11-12T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T20:08:00","slug":"for-the-poppies-blossoming-on-shirts-like-gunshot-wounds-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2006\/11\/12\/for-the-poppies-blossoming-on-shirts-like-gunshot-wounds-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"for the poppies blossoming on shirts like gunshot wounds yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Originally uploaded by Foxtongue<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner<\/b><\/p>\n

by Randall Jarrell<\/i><\/p>\n

From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.<\/p>\n

“A ball turret was a Plexiglas sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24, and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns and one man, a short small man. When this gunner tracked with his machine guns a fighter attacking his bomber from below, he revolved with the turret; hunched upside-down in his little sphere, he looked like the foetus in the womb. The fighters which attacked him were armed with cannon firing explosive shells. The hose was a steam hose.” — Jarrell’s note.
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child soldier Originally uploaded by Foxtongue. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they … Continue reading “for the poppies blossoming on shirts like gunshot wounds yesterday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rememberance-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}