Smote by James Kimbrell

Author:James Kimbrell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarabande Books

by the dispatch operator. I hold

her head back and repeat each fact: she’s

thirty-two, no heart attacks, not

diabetic, not in a wreck. She wears her black

hair pulled back and I have no

idea what—maybe dog days, the July

of everything—pinned her to this spot

in the grocery store parking lot

where she cannot unhinge

herself, her arms still skyward

as if reaching for a trapeze

that’s swinging right toward her

even as they strap her

to the padded blue stretcher.

I stand there recalling

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