For the April 2014 Copy Cat -Challenge 1

CREDITS:
Template: Timounette based on LO by Marijke
Kit: Anna Aspnes' H2O http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=30915
Texture: Anna Aspnes' Spackle http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27949&page=1

Poem: "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley
We all went in a yellow school bus,
on a Tuesday. We sang the whole way up.
We tried to picture the bodies stacked three deep
on either side of that zigzag fence.
We tried to picture 23,000 of anything.
It wasnt that pretty. The dirt smelled like cats.
Nobody knew who the statues were. Where was
Stonewall Jackson? We wanted Stonewall on his horse.
The old cannons were puny. We asked about fireworks.
Our guide said that sometimes, the land still let go
of fragments from the wara gold button, a bullet,
a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around.
On the way back to the bus a boy tripped me and I fell
skidding hard along the ground, gravel lodging
in the skin of my palms. I cried the whole way home.
After a week, the rocks were gone.
My mother said our bodies could digest anything,
but thats a lie. Sometimes, at night, I feel
the battlefield moving inside of me.