Monthly Archives: August 2013
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Wanderlust #4
Miscellany #1
Still Life with Apple, circa 1986
This very moment in front of the class
in front of the photo you took of an apple
exploded by a bullet in less time
than it takes to blink
I am thinking about the very moment
a bullet ricocheted up from a knot of wood
in our physics class
and pierced a ceiling tile
just a moment like your photo
too slick for the human eye
slicing awake the air
in front of the closed eyelids of the students
but in the very back row Donny
takes this moment because it is there
hidden between the frames
to hang his arm over the wood chair
and rest his hand on his girl’s thigh.