Ball Turret Gunner- a.k.a the Sperry ball turret a gun on aircrafts in World War II It was a small Plexiglas sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24, When I looked it up online it also said this poem had to do with abortion. I can see that in the first 2 lines.

In this poem the man is flying a plane. I don’t really understand the first line but I think he could have been just drafted into the army and fell into the State’s hand. State is capitalized so it could be the USA?? The second line could mean what I said at top but I see something different. He gets shot and his stomach starts to bleede until his wet fur- his bloody hair and he dies. The 3^rd line he is maybe exaggerating how high up he is in a plane and his love for flying planes because it says. From its dream of life. It says online Flack refers to the bursting of shells. So he woke up to the bursting of shells , from his dream of life to fly an army plane and the nightmare fighters, which are most likely the Nazis. The final line is when he the plane goes down in fire and the other soldiers put his fire out. Washed him out of the turret is a metaphor, because he got shot so much maybe

The setting is World War II and it’s in the air. The mood is kind of pleasant than sad when he goe from a dream to a death. A sarcastic mood a little, like the Atwood poem. There is no rhyme, it is free verse and the central theme is the War.