Poetry After 911 by Dennis Loy Johnson

Author:Dennis Loy Johnson [Johnson, Dennis Loy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61219-010-5
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

The Land of the Shí is another name for the world underneath the Celtic faery mounds—a parallel, alternate world where one can take refuge after a catastrophe.

—MP.

Philip Schultz

FREE MERCY

The woman beside me on the Jitney weeps

into a cell phone, “You’re leaving me!”

Every seat is taken, it’s late and I’m tired

so I rehearse objections as she cries, “Billy!

You love the way I swim! You love my eyes!”

I try a childhood distraction trick: my dog

Rusty runs away, it’s my birthday and beautiful

Miss Crittenden, my first grade teacher, is leaving

to get married … “Hear that?” the woman cries,

ripping a magazine. “It’s my heart!” My father

dies bankrupt and I don’t go to college … “That time

you saw the cuts on my wrist and asked if I’d do that

over you and I said no? I was lying.” I stutter, lisp,

apologize too much … “I’m coming back to an empty house?”

My number is called, I’m going to Vietnam … “Billy, please,

a little mercy …”

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