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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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JUSITN HYDE
//my grandfather was a deadeye// he dropped pheasants at eye-level, doves with a pistol, quarters thrown in the air for shots of whiskey. after he passed, dad got his old double barrel shotgun lucy. she hung from two lengths of twine in the basement until i was fourteen. i bought a box of slug-shot from wal-mart, no note, popped one in the left chamber barrel in my throat big toe on the trigger. click. i'd accidentally had the thumb-lever set for the right barrel. sometimes i still hear it in my dreams, a dropped spoon on the kitchen floor, or a nail gun dancing on a roof off in some distance. //mom says she hasn't left the house since// i remember her running in a yellow billed hat head tilted so far to the left her ear was practically flush with the shoulder always an open mouth looking slightly pained mom worked with her dad at the hospital she said molly was autistic as a child lived at the mental hospital in cherokee until she was eighteen moved back with her parents just started running out of the blue running watercolors and not talking even at thirty-eight i'd only seen her twice when she wasn't running once at the pizza buffet with her parents slumped over with her arms in her lap same yellow hat pulled far down over her eyes no food or drink concave chest rhythmically pumping up and down like the ribcage of an overheated dog the second time i was rollerblading near brookside park coasting downhill at a good clip three teenage boys shot out of the woods to my left knocked me down and kept on sprinting picked up my headphones rubbed the pebbles out of my bleeding elbows when i saw her on hands and knees there behind the thick brush where i saw blue shorts around her ankles blood all spattered blood across her thighs and a low moaning sound dropped my stomach into my ankles Justin Hyde has had stuff published in Thieves Jargon, Zygote in my coffee, Cerebral Catalyst and other on-line and print publications. His blog is at http://fdostoev.blogspot.com |
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