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“The Man In The Dead Machine” by Donald Hall

By Ernest Hilbert • June 25, 2018 • Feature, Poetry

High on a slope in New Guinea
The Grumman Hellcat
lodges among bright vines
as thick as arms. In 1943,
the clenched hand of a pilot
glided it here
where no one has ever been.

In the cockpit, the helmeted
skeleton sits
upright, held
by dry sinews at neck
and shoulder, and webbing
that straps the pelvic cross
to the cracked
leather of the seat, and the breastbone
to the canvas cover
of the parachute.

Or say the shrapnel
missed him, he flew
back to the carrier, and every
morning takes the train, his pale
hands on the black case, and sits
upright, held
by the firm webbing.

Ernest Hilbert interviews Donald Hall in the American Poetry Review.

Ernest Hilbert reviews Donald Hall’s Selected Poems in The Hopkins Review.

 

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    Reply David Katz February 2, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” belatedly.

  • Reply 2011 02 03 | verse per se February 3, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    […] The Man In The Dead Machine — Donald Hall [E-Verse Radio] “Or say the shrapnel / missed him” – and that was easy too. […]

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