Overwintering
Man came into the shop, friend persuading behind him. Pantyhose over the head that did it in the end. Time slowed around the mouth of a gun. I knew what had happened. I remembered --
Remembered. A child screamed, a fat mucosal tremble. The cash-till clanged. No use. No use for could have. No use for might have.
He said: — Get in. It took a long time for the world to swing far enough. Trunk spangled with bullet holes like a spoiled deerhide. Woke up later:
on the freeway. High up and far off. High up and far away. Sky like a balaclava too for all the good it did. Like clawing at the surface of the water. And crawling out, he pointed at me: my survival at the hands of another.
Man came into the shop, friend persuading behind him. Pantyhose over the head that did it in the end. Time slowed around the mouth of a gun. I knew what had happened. I remembered --
Remembered. A child screamed, a fat mucosal tremble. The cash-till clanged. No use. No use for could have. No use for might have.
He said: — Get in. It took a long time for the world to swing far enough. Trunk spangled with bullet holes like a spoiled deerhide. Woke up later:
on the freeway. High up and far off. High up and far away. Sky like a balaclava too for all the good it did. Like clawing at the surface of the water. And crawling out, he pointed at me: my survival at the hands of another.