Two by Wayne Allen Sallee

Bellair, Illinois, 1984

With molten veins and cool
logic beating with infantry percussion,
Bus Downey, foundation digger and man,
sees a day of Minutemen
bolting skies grey with disbelief.

Planting his spade
in sodden ground,
he thinks of the children.

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GILL-MAN GONE

the two boys ripple
forgetting that creatures
and lagoons still exist
or perhaps
they haven’t seen
the movie