Impossible Bottle by Claudia Emerson

Author:Claudia Emerson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2015-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The surgery was a flash

fire in the yard, folks

nearly delirious

with rakes and hoses, their

faces hot with it.

This place is the slow

burn they watch, if they do,

at a safer distance, as

they might a neighbor’s field

smoldering, glad it’s

not their own, their concern

now the direction of

the wind, a chance of rain.

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Leonard, he shrugs the name patch on his shirt;

his cancer back after a good year and a half;

it’s worse this time; then tells me just as much

a matter of fact he is a mechanic

at the collision place, his specialty the under

-carriage of a car after a wreck,

realignment, the stuff nobody ever sees

and will never notice unless—no, until—

it gets out of whack; he’s lucky, though,

his brother’s bone marrow a match, the one

he had not spoken to in thirty years;

he will go into work tomorrow, has to, that new guy—

he shrugs again—some brand new kind of stupid.

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