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The Chainsaw Bears
Erin Elizabeth Smith
dancing girl press, 2009
The Chainsaw Bears
The chainsaw bears love
burritos. They love summer
baseball on AM radio.
Clean skies, black
like a wet chalkboard.
They love sashimi-
grade tuna, Spanish wine,
the drive from Tuscaloosa
to Birmingham. Licking
honeysuckle in the spring.
Ghost crabs haunting pre-dawn
beaches. Sasparilla and gourmet
ice cream sandwiches. Love
old letters from seventh grade
crushes. Shredding paper
at their temp job. The lowered
mail flag, drywalling, lifting
the sheet from a made bed.
They love using slow-cookers
and the way alcohol
can put another’s hand
into theirs. Yet how will they
ever get to know this,
these painted, wooden bears?
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