We walked together into the darkness
Of an undisclosed location.
Rick Gray
It Went On
It went on, they said.
The road to Baghdad,
The one you saw on the news
With the abandoned cars.
Rick Gray
Rick Gray was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2014, and received the Veteran’s Scholarship from the Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop. He served in the Peace Corps in Kenya, and has since lived in Nigeria, South Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan, where he currently teaches at the American University.