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Sean Mclain Brown

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_ Poet Sean Mclain Brown offers us a disturbing scene from the Iraq
War, what happens to the animals in the combat zone. _

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Ash rain lit by the green glow of lightning cracks against the windows
like a fallen tree, my heart harrumphs, skips a beat, remembers when a
short-range Frog missile hit the perimeter in rain at night, struck
the same chord of fear, and in the morning we found the scattered
remains of a camel and I wondered then if camels mourn their dead as
elephants do; visiting the boneyards of the savannas again and again,
grasping their relative’s tusks with the gristle of their long
wrinkled gray trunks as if to say, _I am here, I remember you, I will
never forget you._

_In his Author’s Note, Brown writes: “While their deaths were not
widespread, Bedouin camels were among the casualties of artillery
fire, bombing campaigns, and death by unexploded bombs, particularly
the widely used rockeye variety of cluster bombs. According to [an
international physicians group}, ‘A population of 800,000 sheep was
reduced to 10,000; 10,000 camels were down to 2,000; and, of 3,000
horses, many of them Arabian and thoroughbred race horses, fewer than
500 could be found in Kuwait at the end of the war.’”_

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