trout

  Journal » Trout 11 » I Am In My Street [Sonja Yelich]
   «       29       30       31       32       33    34    35       36       37       38       »   

 

i am in my street

Sonja Yelich


beresford street
i am in my street
with a junket for this ambulance
parked up on a lawn
*
the red cross truck
in quick brown fox

*
i am asking which police officer
what happened
& for all gory to see
he smiles a killeen winner
*
a gun & a foot
& we are looking for the reason
he says.
*
i am a slow volvo
pulling away

aware of the
2 foot driving rule
*
i am a rubbernecker –
a chiropractor's
dream swivelling at 40
bucks a pop

*
details are sketchy –
breeze
& sun & a cheap letterbox
are dead certs.
*
my diction is quick
when i ask a photographer
from the Little Local
how close did you get
*
close enough he says
to see only one foot
attached
& a knob of swaddling
left.
*
he says it was about
the other guy's julie
& how she be going from
foot to foot
up 2 garden paths
of 2 marines.
*
which is why you would
want to shoot the other guys foot out

 


 « contents » 
© Copyright 2003 Sonja Yelich & Trout.