Two Nights Under Rough Wool

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Two Nights Under Rough Wool John Schneider (bio) In my brother's barrackstwo teenage protesterssleep in the empty bunksof soldiers gone to Nam. That night, under cheap Armyblankets again, my friend and Iplay war with a dog-eared deckof old cards missing all its kingswhile my older brother is offdrinking with men who haven'tyet lost themselves. ________ As kids, we slept under the sameblankets—coarse, cheap, moth-proof—until returning one day from schoolto find matching store-bought spreadsquilted in greens and rust and gold. But no mother—gone for surgery again.No longer worried about her canning jarsfilled with silver anniversary dollars.No longer saving them for a worthy cause. No longer fearing one son's warand how the other will one day fillhis empty bunk under the same rough wool. [End Page 109] John Schneider john schneider's debut collection, Swallowing the Light, winner of the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in Poetry, and nominated for the Hoffer Award, was published in 2022, his non-fiction book: Dreaming and Being Dreamt is forthcoming from Routledge in 2023. He is also a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He lives in Berkeley, California. Copyright © 2023 University of North Dakota

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