4.08 / August 2009

Countdown

Eric Burke

Hanging from a tree,
noose around his thumb,
her son.
She rushes to save him
(she knows the law:
the thumb = the child)
….again the uncontrollable
discretion of neighbors
must be counted on.

Eric Burke lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he works as a computer programmer. More of his poems and short fiction can be found in Thrush Poetry Journal, bluestem, PANK, qarrtsiluni, Escape Into Life,decomP, A cappella Zoo, Weave Magazine and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. You can keep up with him at his blog at http://anomalocrinus.blogspot.com/.

4.08 / August 2009