7 December

Men are trading their bullets for worms.
“I spent a lifetime building.”
 
We come down from the mountains. We brought eggs, a table, a windowshade. There were times when we couldn’t bring anything. So many people.
 
As you were walking up the hill and I was walking down, we almost passed each other. But I grasped your arm and backed up. You said: “This is what I look like now.”


Copyright Credit: Kate Greenstreet, "7 December" from The Last 4 Things. Copyright © 2009 by Kate Greenstreet.  Reprinted by permission of Ahsahta Press.
Source: The Last 4 Things (Ahsahta Press, 2009)