This emphasis on humanity is shown through his vivid depictions of PTSD. In the poem At Lowe’s Home Improvement Center you can see that for veterans simple tasks like going to the hardware store are skewed and seen through a war tinted lens. The simple mistake of dropping nails gives Brian the chilling image of “ Shells falling south of Baghdad last night, where Bosch kneeled under the chain guns of helicopters stationed above” (ALHIC P.2) He then jumps into a dreamy montage of war imagery invoked by the stores goings-ons. He narrates “Sheets of plywood drop with the airy breath of mortars the moment they crack open into shrapnel” (ALHIC P.6) Soon after he hauntingly describes “Cash registers open and slide shut with a sound of machine guns