“The Hounds of Mars”

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Between two farm fields in Sharpsburg, Md., there was a sunken road, which Confederates used as a rifle pit until they were overrun by federal troops. The road has since been known as “Bloody Lane.”

’twere few who probed the Bloody Lane

Made a measure of the dead

And took the trumpet’s long refrain

On which that pox was spread

Devil’s Den after Battle of Gettysburg July 1863

Few saw first-hand the Devil’s Den

Or that actor’s vaulting fame

But a house divided, now as then,

Will soon be spurred to flame

Trump supporters before the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 (photograph by Shay Horse, Nurphoto/Getty Images)

Be this not the Hornet’s Nest

No last grand sworded charge

Yet our missteps, the Fates attest,

Unleash the hounds of Mars

Published by Stephen Futterer

Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.

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