date/truck/gunrack
when he arrives, your parents think nothing of it: everyone hunts.
he drives out to the county, to scrub land where deer run, where stars and stars
and stars await his starved eyes and yours, and you ride seatbelt safe as far
apart as his rifle is long, its stock at his shoulder, its barrel at your head.
About Amy Bagwell
Amy Bagwell’s poems are recently in Folio, Westchester Review, American Literary Review, & storySouth & are paired with art by Dawn Roe in Wretched Yew (Theurgical Studies Press). A co-founder of the arts nonprofits Goodyear Arts & Wall Poems, she holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. amybagwell.com
date/truck/gunrack
when he arrives, your parents think nothing of it: everyone hunts.
he drives out to the county, to scrub land where deer run, where stars and stars
and stars await his starved eyes and yours, and you ride seatbelt safe as far
apart as his rifle is long, its stock at his shoulder, its barrel at your head.
date/truck/gunrack
when he arrives, your parents think nothing of it: everyone hunts.
he drives out to the county, to scrub land where deer run, where stars and stars
and stars await his starved eyes and yours, and you ride seatbelt safe as far
apart as his rifle is long, its stock at his shoulder, its barrel at your head.
About Amy Bagwell
Amy Bagwell’s poems are recently in Folio, Westchester Review, American Literary Review, & storySouth & are paired with art by Dawn Roe in Wretched Yew (Theurgical Studies Press). A co-founder of the arts nonprofits Goodyear Arts & Wall Poems, she holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. amybagwell.com
