Manual

Katie Fuller

I wouldn’t summon pictures of the abandoned bomber.

The men were buzzing about my head, foraging for food.

Two weeks is not enough time to have to eat each other.

Two days is enough time to witness wreckage without a wreck.

Eleven soldiers lost contact in the 1943 squall.

If a patch of white appears below you go for the only landing strip.

You shear the trees at the end of the lake.

You hope the ice is froze.

I didn’t take the acid going back there.

They stayed for two weeks ‘til some of them set out.

The only difference between us and the day-hikers is water.

The only difference for squirrels is our food suspended.

The silver wings can be seen from the trail.

To be a hero eat a woodpecker.