No Small Thing
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- No Small Thing
all my old rough necks are dead
except for Charlie
I broke both arms and lost this fingernail while I was the boss
we always had to hurry, hurry
one time I said to Charlie
“Let’s get this bit
on the bottom
fast!”
and when we started to
drop that pipe down
the coiled rope grabbed Charlie [End Page 204]
and broke his arm
he was lucky I was there to catch him
that’s how I lost the fingernail [End Page 205]
Sheryl L. Nelms
Sheryl L. Nelms has published fourteen volumes of poems and is the fiction / nonfiction editor of The Pen Woman Magazine. She is as well a three time nominee for the Pushcart Prize.
