Matthew Borczon- Three Poems

Matthew Borczon is a nurse and navy sailor who lives in Erie, Pa. He writes about the war he lived through and the war he continues to fight daily. His work has appeared in Red Efts, Big Hammer, the Yellow Chair review, 1947, Busted Dharma as well as other journals. He recently won the Yellow Chair Review's chapbook contest and his book A Clock of Human Bones will come out in Early 2016

Couch

Took some

of the

money I

made while

I was

deployed

and bought

a big

soft  couch

deep thick

and black

enough to

ride my

nightmares

strait to

hell on

PTSD 2

If you

stick your

arm in

up to

the elbow

inside  the

hornets

nest that

is my

life

you will

only feel

the wind

and only

hear the

war.

PTSD 3

my wife

says she

tried to

wake me

but is

afraid to

touch me

or shake

me because

of how

much I

still jump

and scream