"Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner"

"from my mother's sleep I fell into the State" this art talks about going from one place to another, one that is unfamiliar, one where he fell instead of coming voluntarily. the word "State" is also capitalized, suggesting that maybe it is an actual state.

"six miles from the earth" 30,000 feet is about cruising altitude for an airplane, which makes sense, if the reader knows what a ball turret gunner is.

"loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flack" I really think that 'loosed' means closest to 'shaken from' and this connotation suggests a disconnect from what the narrator is experiencing and the world that the rest of the earth is experiencing. while they have life, he faces what might be his death.

"when I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose" at this point we know that the narrator is definitely dead, but also that his death was a violent one. and yet, he is still treated as insignificant. washed away.