Incarnadine by Mary Szybist

Author:Mary Szybist
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55597-330-8
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2013-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

I can begin the picture: his neck is bent,

his mouth too close to her ear as he leans in

above her shoulder—to point

to poppies shaded in apricot, stippled

just as he taught her. Class is over.

They are alone in the steady air—

Through the window, a jump rope’s tick.

An occasional bird. High voices.

Perhaps, so caught up in composing her flower,

she doesn’t feel his fingers

there and there, her neck exposed

to the spring air—

II.

There are only a few lines in the newspaper: her grade, his age, when the police arrived. J. calls to say he doesn’t believe the girl. Girls that age, he says—you know how that goes. Hey, if there’s a trial, you could be a witness.

What kind of witness?

Character witness.

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