Two boys wander a battlefield near their village during the Russian Revolution...
The Arsenal
The fronts had changed,
a brief void in oppressive occupation.
Otto stumbled on the battlefield first,
lifted one soldier fallen across his rifle.
Hein took the rifle and with his younger
brother hid it with six others,
each in different places,
secretly,
occasionally
going out to target practice
and mock war.
One day retrieving another rifle
near a battlefield
the brothers found
a soldier's boot.
Blown off above the ankle,
the foot was still intact.
marty
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