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Landing

by  joanie

Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Word Count: 42
Summary: For the Flash Poetry Challnege




Two nights
in a travelodge
with plastic mattress covers

where the
less than pristine sheet
wrinkles and clings with each turn

until
the bed's a war zone
with concrete pillows shrapnel-

filled. How
different was the dream
we had before our D-day.