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The speaker worries that a husband is afraid and writes IRAQ as a detached closing word.

The speaker connects concern for a husband with Iraq on the page, without stating a location, deployment or particular event. The voice does not establish the author's marital history.

'LOVE' says 'It is Not LifE / My husbANd / to bE AfrAid / But I AM worriEd / thAt hE is', with 'IRAQ' written apart below.

The speaker in this poem worries about someone afraid, and the separate place name frames the worry; the poem's voice is not identified with the author.