Great Regulars: "Katyusha Rockets" is the title

of a handful of powerful, image-searing works that [Brian] Turner read at the International Poetry Forum's season finale.

The poem follows the rocket's trail from Iraq to the United States, a symbol of how the fear of death remains in the veteran's mind after coming home:

Rockets often fall
in the night sky of the skull, down long avenues
of the brain's myelin sheathing, over synapses
and the rough structures of thought . . .

from Bob Hoover: Post-Gazette: Brian Turner reading launches Poetry Month

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