Test Fire

Test Fire —south of Jalawla After we drive through the barren hills where the earth unrolls itself for miles, where the soil’s as stale as boxed cookies sent from the Youngstown USO, the gunners fire machineguns at the ridge wall’s face—small dust-explosions lift to the sky like faded desert larks while the rest of us shoot from our knees, our chests, as copper casings rain like loose change across the dirt, then as we convoy back to Cobra from nowhere the bedo

Biology · Environmental Science · Fire dynamics and safety research · Ecology