Thursday, June 11, 2009

Family Vacation by Kimberly E. Ruth

Droplets the size of tonsils,

like the child gnawing on the turkey
leg on a stick

on a bone,
it seemed.

I’ve seen scenes like this before,
in movies.

Old movies.
Similar figures

protected by garbage bags
and camouflage hats

treading through rain
forests and thick

air.

People wait in lines for food;
an eight dollar hotdog

and a hat with animal ears.

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