Pima Road Notebook #1 by Keith Ekiss
20/09/2010Bullet-Riddled Saguaro
By Keith Ekiss
The body appears diseased. Green
limbs amputated, like photographs
of children in war, mutilated,
burned alive. A body wants to die
but can’t: the roots still draw water.
The shotgun holes could house birds:
elf owl, cactus wren. An easy target,
the man can’t miss. Where one
stops to shoot another shoots,
fingering the trigger, surprised
each time how deeply it stands.
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New Issues has recently published Keith Ekiss’ first book of poems, Pima Road Notebook. A series of poems from the collection has been selected by the author for The Owls site.
