Copyright
Copyright Amalie Flynn; 1994 - Present; Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without written permission from this blog's author is strictly prohibited.-
Recent Posts
Archives
- August 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
Events
Facebook
Interviews
My Other Blogs
Press
- 9/11
- CASANA 3/21/2013
- CNN 9 /11/2011
- I'd Rather Be Making Art 9/11/2011
- La guerra della moglie di un militare
- Our 9/11 Tribute 9/11/2011
- September 11th: art, artifacts and remembrance 9 / 11 / 2011
- The Art of Extraordinary Writing
- The New York Times Media Decoder 8/10/2012
- The Welcome Home Project
- Weaponized Culture 5/3/2012
- Wordpress.com Bloggers Who Covered The Biggest News Stories of 2011
Press for WIFE AND WAR: THE MEMOIR
- "She's Lucky" in Stars & Stripes 11/7/2013
- Barrington Author Shares Her Story Tonight
- Give the gift of military history
- How to Help War Vets Struggling with Emotional Numbing 2/17/2015
- Lit Chat 9/12/2013
- Mention by Time Now Blog
- Peter Molin on Time Now 9/28/14
- The Waiting: 'Stateside,' 'Wife and War," and the Hale Koa
- These Almost Widows-Amalie Flynn's Wife and War 10/2/14
Readings
Recently Published In
- America the Gun in Atticus Review 10 / 13 / 2014
- Excerpt in STARS & STRIPES 11/7/2013
- Excerpt on Blogs of War 10/16/2013
- Excerpt on Medium / Words After War
- Excerpt on Words After War 2/4/2014
- Integra Center 11/20/2013
- LINE on 3 Quarks Daily 3/29/2012
- NO on Speaking of Apraxia 2/3/2014
- The New York Times 8/19/2012
- The New York Times At War 11/15/2010
- The New York Times At War 11/23/2011
- The New York Times At War 3/1/2011
- TIME 9/28/2011
- Wife in The Literary Review 5 / 2014
Twitter
-
Join 75 other subscribers
Tag Archives: darkness
Helmet
Ten years, my husband is saying, As we put our sons to bed, turn … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Helmet. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog, at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/helmet/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 9-11, 9/11, 9/11/01, afghanistan, alive, amalie flynn, amalieflynn, America, anniversary, army, babies, behind, bodies, brain, child, couples, darkness, dead, decade, deployment, doctor, everything, gone, GWOT, hand, happened, happening, head, heart, helmet, hold, home, husband, iraq, marine, marriage, military, military spouse, milso, moving, navy, nothing, pregnancy, probe, relationship, soft, soldier, son, stomach, terror, turn, veteran, war, wife, wife and war, wifeandwar, wrong
Leave a comment
Pretend
Our son is invited to a birthday party Where they will play tag with laser guns, … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Pretend. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog, at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/pretend/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11/01, afghanistan, alive, amalie flynn, armor, army, artillery, birthday, body, body armor, boy, chests, child, children, close range, closer, cover, darkness, daughter, dead, deploy, deployment, distance, father, graves, Ground Zero, gun, guns, GWOT, hand, harmless, helmet, house, husband, iraq, Kevlar, kill, laser, Libya, lucky, machine gun, marine, mass graves, military, military family, military wife, military wives, milso, milspouse, mother, navy, New York City, Pakistan, party, pistol, pretend, rifle, road, September 11 2001, shoot, sink, soldier, son, South Sudan, Syria, tag, terror, vests, war, wife, wifeandwar, World Trade Center
Leave a comment
Needles
I tell my husband how I saw needles, … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Needles. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/needles/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, 9/11/01, afghanistan, amalie flynn, America, arm, arming plug, army, asleep, bed, bomb, breast, child, children, countries, darkness, dead, deployment, detonate, ERW, explode, family, father, grass, hairline, hidden, home, house, husband, hypodermic, IED, iraq, kidney, landmine, law, lawn, leg, marine, marriage, matter, military, milso, milspouse, mother, navy, needles, nipple, nothing, organ, police, pressure plate, puncture, remnant, road, room, side, skin, soldier, someone, son, torso, trash, underneath, vbied, veteran, walking, war, wife, wifeandwar, world, wound
Leave a comment
Sclera
We are at the eye doctor And she is showing us a diagram … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Sclera. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog, at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/sclera/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, afghanistan, amalie flynn, America, attack, bed, bodies, bombs, bulb, children, coils, computer, cornea, cover, darkness, dead, deployment, doctor, exposed, eye, flower, head, human, husband, iraq, iris, look, mattress, men, military, military wife, milspouse, morning, nerve, night, optic, photographs, ptsd, pupil, real, room, rows, sclera, sheet, smoke, snakes, soldier, Syria, terrorism, tissue, veteran, war, white, wife, wifeandwar, women, wrapped
Leave a comment
Distance
On my computer there are photographs Of a refugee camp in Kabul, … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Distance. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog, at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/distance/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged afghanistan, alive, America, bed, blood, bomb, bullets, camp, child, city, collapse, computer, darkness, Darul Aman palace, dead, death, displaced, distance, fire, gun, gunfire, home, house, husband, IED, internally displaced, military, military wife, mud, peace, photographs, refugee, ribs, skin, soldier, space, spine, walls, war, water, wife, wifeandwar, windows
Leave a comment
Free
Today it is the Fourth of July, And when my son finds me … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Free. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog, at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/free/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged afghanistan, amalie flynn, amalieflynn, America, bangs, bodies, bombs, bone, children, darkness, deployment, exploding, fireworks, firing, fourth, fourth of July, free, freedom, gun, hear, here, home, husband, independence, iraq, July, lawns, marriage, military, military wife, mourning, muscle, neighborhood, nervous, night, pops, ptsd, relationships, shadows, sky, soldier, sound, street, vbied, veteran, walk, war, weapons, wife, wife and war, wifeandwar, wound
Leave a comment
Rounds
A soldier is standing in the darkness Next to a door, next to a compound … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Rounds. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog, at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/rounds/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged afghanistan, amalieflynn, America, ammunition, answer, army, attack, bodies, body, bullets, child, compound, cover, cross, darkness, death, deployment, door, eyes, face, grief, gun, hands, hear, home, houses, insurgent, iraq, kalashnikov, kill, know, letter, M4, man, marine, memories, memory, military, mourning, mouth, navy, now, people, ptsd, repeat, reserves, rifle, room, rooms, round, rounds, sees, sentence, shape, skin, soldier, story, tbi, vbied, veteran, wait, war, wear, what, wife, wifeandwar, word, wound
Leave a comment
Pronoun
I am sitting in my station wagon, Thinking about pronouns, or how … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Pronoun. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog, at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/pronoun/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged afghanistan, alone, amalie flynn, amalieflynn, America, arm, army, army wife, bodies, bomb, child, children, compound, country, darkness, deployment, husband, leg, letters, life, light, man, marine, marine wife, marriage, marry, military, military wife, mine, navy, navy wife, necklace, ours, pronoun, pronouns, skin, soldier, torsos, war, water, wife, wifeandwar, women, world, yours
Leave a comment
Birthday
When you came home from war, You gave me a stone shaped like a heart, … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Birthday. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog, at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/birthday/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 2001, 9/11, 9/11/2001, afghanistan, amalie flynn, America, arms, away, bed, blue, bodies, bombs, brother, carve, cavity, country, couples, darkness, deployment, dirt, dust, forget, gone, grief, guns, heart, help, home, husband, iraq, jason, jumpers, jumping, Kabul, land, lapis, lapis lazuli, lazuli, legs, letter, love, marriage, memories, men, military, mountains, mourning, name, people, pocket knife, ptsd, relationship, remember, schools, September 11, shards, sky, snakes, soldier, spouse, stone, tbi, terror, terrorism, towers, Twin Towers, understand, vet, veteran, war, whisper, wife, wifeandwar, wing, words, World Trade Center, WTC
Leave a comment
Ventricle
When a soldier deploys to war, He goes to a country with … This is an excerpt of Amalie Flynn’s new poem Ventricle. To read the rest, go to her Wife and War blog, at http://wifeandwar.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/ventricle/
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 9/11, Afghan, afghanistan, amalie flynn, amalieflynn, America, army, arteries, artery, ballistic, ballistic plate, blood, body, body armor, bombs, bullets, chamber, chest, children, compound, country, darkness, death, deployment, door, family, father, global war on terror, gun, heart, home, husband, Kevlar, land, life, limb, M4, marines, men, military, milspouse, mother, night patrol, patrol, ptsd, rifle, sand, soldier, terrorism, valve, vein, veins, ventricle, war, wife, wifeandwar, women
Leave a comment
September 11 