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Rougarou, an online literary journal. Spring 2012 | Volume 7 | Issue 1

To the Rescue Crew

Ephraim Scott Sommers

There is a beige Chrysler. There is a hole.
We are the dead siblings, frozen

Mid-argument in the trunk
Of the Chrysler: the brittleness
Of cracked windshields after a season of debris.

After a tornado in Tuscaloosa, there are sleeves to roll up,
But not ours.

Wash us. Stuff us with coat hangers and guitar strings.
Bend out of us an embrace.

There is a hole where our city once was.
Where my sister and I once were, a hole.