A collection of poems by award-winning poet Brian Turner inspired by his experiences with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Iraq. VA hospital confessional -- At Lowe's Home Improvement Center -- Howl wind -- Aubade : layover in Amsterdam -- Whale -- Chinese ink brush painting -- Sleeping in Dick Cheney's bed -- Viking I -- Perimeter watch -- Illumination rounds -- Puget Sound -- Al-A ?imma bridge -- Helping her breathe -- Guarding the bomber -- Phantom noise -- Zippo -- Homemade napalm -- Bruce Lee's Enter the dragon -- Lucky money -- On the flight to Alamosa, Colorado -- Wading out -- White phosphorus -- 22-caliber -- Green Alexandrine -- Unearthed by wind -- Ancient Baghdad -- Stopping the American infantry patrol neat the Prophet Yunus mosque in Mosul, Abu Ali shows them the cloth in his pocket -- "Tell me beautiful one, from where did the Lord bring you?" -- Insignia -- Mohammed trains for the Beijing Olympics, 2008 -- Lullaby for bullets -- Discothe?que -- Jundee Ameriki -- American internal -- To my unnamed daughter -- Ajal -- Inventory from a year lived sleeping with bullets -- Mutanabbi street bombing -- Eucalyptus -- In the Tannour oven -- Study of nudes by candlelight -- In the Guggenheim Museum -- One square inch project.

Poems.