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Laura Lauth: For the Boy I Saw

August 25, 2017 by PBQ 1 Comment

no older than six,
who watched me watch him

get his beating

in the empty parking lot
of the Beaufort ABC

under a buckshot moon

one night in July,
so hot and high and open,

it’d make you cry

if you were that kind,
but he didn’t, and I didn’t

do anything while

the fist fell fast and time
touched everything twice.

Filed Under: Contributors 96, Issue 96, Poetry, Poetry 96 Tagged With: contributors 96, issue 96, Laura Lauth, Poetry, poetry 96

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  1. james lineberger says

    February 23, 2018 at 12:21 pm

    so vivid and harrowing.

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