Skirts and Slacks: Poems - W. S. Di Piero - Hardcover - 1 ED

Skirts and Slacks The .32 Special its Dutch Masters box, still in their bedroom closet, days after my mother's death, plus my father's thirty years ago. I used to practice disarming, reloading, putting it in my mouth for fun. And so here it is again, but (stupid woman, Great Depression child scrolling tens and twenties in macaroni boxes) loaded, half-cocked. Oh yes, shoot the burglar in the closet, the cat in heat on the fence, and Calvin Coolidge. She rose, rammy, close to death, cocked up in bed as if pulleyed by heaven, sometime past midnight. I was there to watch her eyes wake for a moment enraged and hateful toward me. Bone wooled with slights of flesh, what certainty in the body at its end? And between here and there? Breath stops, blood fades, the comic head I'm lifting from the pillow feels too merely anatomical and heavier than before. Copyright (c) 2001 by W. S. Di PieroDi Piero, W. S. is the author of 'Skirts and Slacks: Poems - W. S. Di Piero - Hardcover - 1 ED' with ISBN 9780375411533 and ISBN 0375411534.