and you are the chamber
and the firing pin
that strikes the ignition cap
and sparks the reaction
which ends with me lodged
into a wall having missed
or in the bulls-eye center
of a silhouetted target
just like the first time we met
and our hands brushed together
as we reached for the same
copy of a Fitzgerald book
on the summer discount rack
and after we exchanged numbers
I didn’t know if your aim
wavered from the end of an out-stretched
arm or if your sights were dead-on.
***
Bennett Durkan is an MFA student at Stephen F. Austin. He has had poetry published in "Psaltery and Lyre" and "The Red River Review." Recently, he has one first prize in "The Piney Dark" fiction contest.
