"At Lowe's Home Improvement Center." This poem is the most direct exploration of those impossible juxtapositions as "a 50 pound box of double-headed nails" turns into ". . . firing pins/from M-4s and M-16s," "Wounded Iraqis with IVs/sit propped against boxes as 92 sample Paradiso fans," and "Dead soldiers are laid out at the registers." Though the images share physical space with the home improvement center, their concepts never mix; the ideas of a home improvement center and a war are kept separate.from The Millions: War Comes Home: Brian Turner's Phantom Noise
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