A veteran father strategizes how to communicate with his ill child in Randy Brown’s sweet and unsettling poem.
Randy Brown
About Randy Brown
In 2010, Randy Brown was preparing for deployment to Eastern Afghanistan as a member of the Iowa Army National Guard’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry ‘Red Bull’ Division. After a paperwork snafu dropped him from the list, he retired with 20 years of military service and a previous overseas deployment. He then went to Afghanistan anyway, embedding with Iowa’s Red Bull units as a civilian journalist in May-June 2011. He blogs about military topics at: www.redbullrising.com.
His poetry and non-fiction is published or forthcoming in such literary venues as The Corn Belt Almanac; Midwestern Gothic; So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library; Spillway; and the first three editions of the anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, published annually by Southeast Missouri State University Press.
red moon rising
Just in time for the full lunar eclipse, Randy Brown presents a father-daughter moment beneath a “blood moon.”