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Spring 2012 • Vol. XXXIV No. 2 • Poetry |

Spring in Jalula

1.
The air is exhaust smoke, desert heat, the black 
sewage-streams that don't dry. 

Cows graze beside the river of shit; their noses sift 
through soggy trash. 

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Hugh Martin is a veteran of the Iraq War and the author of In Country (BOA Editions, 2018) and The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, 2013). He's currently completing a PhD at Ohio University.

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