Red
Open Jeep
That raptured us to the bottom of
Cherokee Hill
Aunt Shirley’s
face, nails, her flip flops, elastic
band that
barely tamed
her whipping hair, weeping
bead work
my knee aflame
reopened on blacktop
only minutes
before sirens
split the sun ripe afternoon
Red
Bank
Baptist Church at the apex of a blind
curve
Beetle
helpless on its back, cans of
Bud
scattered
empties, some full ones
church key
perhaps
thrown clear with the passengers
blood
pooling
beneath the pinioned driver
everything
except the snow
white sheet I could not help
but imagine
drawn gently
over my astonished
fevered face.
Oct 17, 2016
Oct 17, 2016 at 8:50 AM UTC
Red
Open Jeep
That raptured us to the bottom of
Cherokee Hill
Aunt Shirley’s
face, nails, her flip flops, elastic
band that
barely tamed
her whipping hair, weeping
bead work
my knee aflame
reopened on blacktop
only minutes
before sirens
split the sun ripe afternoon
Red
Bank
Baptist Church at the apex of a blind
curve
Beetle
helpless on its back, cans of
Bud
scattered
empties, some full ones
church key
perhaps
thrown clear with the passengers
blood
pooling
beneath the pinioned driver
everything
except the snow
white sheet I could not help
but imagine
drawn gently
over my astonished
fevered face.
