Who can imagine that at an Air & Space Forces Association’s
Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado, the Air Force

Research Laboratory’s Missile Utility Transformation
via Articulated Nose Technology (MUTANT) project would up-

stage IRIS-T, or the InfraRed Imaging System Tail/Thrust
Vector-Controlled homing missile, which Germany

(once our enemy now our ally) is currently sending to
the Ukraine along with American Patriots to proxy

war push back an invasion by the Russian neo-Czar
(once our ally & then [too soon?] enemy [forever?])

Not Capt. Barefoot. HeShe’s been out in
the last gasp spring storm before the San Juan’s

1000-year summer drought’s liftoff: snowshoeing slush
Getting herhis news from raven’s caw & the bark

of ponderosa. Morning hugs from big trees,
barbed wire & scratchy scrub oak

All in for the getting, mate
or is it you be forgetting?