The 2River View | 22.2 (Winter 2018) |
Andrew Cox The boy splashed into bed and sank as Hot Springs offered no backstory and led them in a dance that parents will never know The water flowed lullabies His lungs and his hair let the water know they were not enemies and could keep reluctant to explain why the water came in the form of a boy’s mattress The Chicago Seven to understand the power of voice overs and how the camera was groping history in its lens as the Battle of Khe Sanh would add itself to the future’s evening news and his mother became to provide details why it had to be the water that made the boy’s blue eyes beacons in a lake’s The water let the boy swim with joy while Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination seeped under to choose water and its ability to be interpreted by no one the boy could swim to and ask for to his mother’s lap where he would lay his head and understand the water came to teach him Big sky said let’s knock the birds from the trees And the rain said let’s make these wipers There in the distance Stares at the headlights and says Big sky said I am too busy to hear all these voices To understand about the deer Andrew Cox is the author of The Equation that Explains Everything, Fortune Cookies, and the hypertext chapbook Company X. He edits The UCity Review.
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