Things Impossible to Swallow • poems by Pamela Garvey • number 24 in the 2River Chapbook Series • 2River Elbowed Snatching stacks of bills from her hands, the man stumbled, elbowed the bathroom, drank Benadryl while they pretended silence. in half, then you’d feel sorry. With a pipe wrench, the boy cracked from the nose. A line to the ear smacked of the scar on the father’s face rim those eyes. If only he could punch through this reflection, hollered, two . . . that yanking again: cords ripped from walls. Then the
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