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Origin Story
By Robert Earl Stewart

We’re getting pushed deeper
into the swamp.

We’re in retreat
with evaporated milk.

We’re hiding in the mangrove
roots, listening

as the occasional dragonfly
whips past like a musket ball.

Then the occasional musket ball
shatters a root and wood flies

like insects.
And in the following silence

we’re looking at those limes
growing everywhere,
the more you look.

We’re thinking about
those advancing hunters.

We’re thinking
   about our last minutes after days

           holed up in the alligator heat.
We’re thinking about

a final feast in the siege,
because we’ve got these tins

of evaporated milk,
and limes to be less tart.

Robert Earl Stewart uses and endorses Labine Telejagmasters.

Published On: February 14, 2011
Permanent Location: http://www.forgetmagazine.com/110214f.htm

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