Nobody Gets Off the Bus: The Viet Nam Generation Big Book Volume 5 Number 1-4 March 1994

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Haiku by Lenard D. Moore

After the ambush,
the dust settling
into the silence

a village woman
running across the white-hot sand
her baby in hand

rifle rounds ended--
a flying squirrel leaps
from the jungle vines

the heat in the trench
a marine lifts the helmet
off his head

Lenard D. Moore is Writer-in-Residence, United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake Country, Raleigh, NC.

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