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Western Pulps, Gulf Shores

from Bang Dust by Hovering Shrikes

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With elegant long tweezers,
she pulls chocolate diamond figures
from beneath her fingernails.

The sun is turning over.
She’s forgotten last night’s lover --
just another boom without a sail.

She plucks a soggy paperback
out of her Givenchy beach bag
and turns it to the dog-eared denouement.

The protagonist is tiring
of some love that is expiring,
but he’s got a job to do, and it’s the law.

A breeze. A squeeze.
A lime coin tossed.
A sip. More lip.
Her legs recross, recross.

Hexagonal sunglasses
hiding winged eyelines and lashes
elongated till they dust against the lens.

The sheriff in her story hangs
his gun belt up and kneels to pray,
“O Lord, don’t make me ride through that again.”

The sun. The fun
she knows she's had.
Low shadows of
the good, the bad.

A sniff. A sip.
She heaves her chest.
A wave. Last page.
The trough. The crest.
The crest.
The crest.

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.

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from Bang Dust, released April 9, 2021

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Lyric-driven post-punk from Portland.

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