Remains

• Written in free verse
• "His bloody life in my bloody hands"
• "Probably armed, possibly not"
• Repetition of "I see" emphasising visual horrors of the scene
• "Three of a kind all letting fly" - analogy, soldiers described as cards in poker, which is a game of luck
• "End of story, except not really," Volta, mood change
• "and tosses his guts back into his body."
• "Then I'm home on leave. But I blink" Caesura and enjambment
• "not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land" sibilance
• "near to the knuckle, here and now"