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Blood Moon

William Doreski

A dead-end road, a wooden house.
A woman visits. I’d walk her home,
but when I point a flashlight
at the lawn a corpse responds
by grimacing at the moon. The white
smiles of the murderers cluster

by the roadside. Their politics—
Republican and Christian—warn me
pacifism need not apply.
The woman visitor withdraws.
The house groans, the brick foundations
too old to support it much longer.

The murderers stroll up the walk.
My flashlight picks out their features:
long noses, receding chins, mouths
watery and slack as gills.
Three men, two women. Their weapons,
various farm implements

rusty with abuse, presume
to claim me. I reach inside
and snatch a semi-automatic
shotgun to point at their loins
to discourage reproduction.
They can’t see the weapon clearly

in the dark, so I fire one shot
to mark the location. The blast
of large pellets harvests both legs
of one of the men. His torso
speaks, but no one understands
the language it has just invented.

The other four turn and hack him
to cold cuts, their smiles so flashy
most politicians would envy them.
The night, despite the half-moon,
seems unusually dark. No neighbors
close enough to hear the shotgun fire,

so when the four murderers turn
toward me again I shoot them all;
and when my woman friends merges
to see the mess, we bay together
at the blood moon, a kiss we taste
without touching each other’s lips.



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