"Still Life With Mounted .50 Cal"
By Cora Reichert
Months of green-hour mornings
flatten a copper-smelling sea,
heating your neck even before the daylight.
The rail is always sticky with shards of salt,
turning your fingers gray.
Out there we are engines
Redrawing the edge of water
with the wide and heavy swing
of handles, the fulcrum of a hollow knife.
Did you break your word to
the nations nested
in every fleet of shoals?
Did you plant your feet on the rock
three miles underwater?
Cora Reichert is a 24-year-old active-duty Marine from Columbus, OH. She has been published several times in Lethal Minds Journal and is working on her first book. She currently lives in Maryland, where she enjoys photography, long gym sessions, and writing about Okinawa and the military. Find more of her poetry and photography here.
What’s happening at VetRep…
Catch our interview with David Meadows on the Savage Wonder Podcast this week.
If you didn’t see it live, make sure you’re following us on Instagram so you can catch our Valentine’s Day Write Loud, featuring Dex, Mason Rodrigue, Keith Walter Dow, Lani Hankins, and Chris Madsen.
Registration is live for our first acting and playwriting classes! The classes are being offered at our Quaker Ave. location on February 22nd and March 4th. Find more details and register here.
VetRep is hosting our second public workshop, this time for War Wound by Philip Korth. We’re proud to hold this event at American Legion Post 633 in Highland Falls, NY which is our sponsor for the reading. Get tickets here!