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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