Fine in High Summer Sudden When
- Fine in High Summer Sudden When
As Conrad Barbedthe inventor of barbed wireRecounted to hisdaily / Hourly in his later years
Biographer it was a fineday a fine afternoon a walkfine in high summer sudden whenHe realized
No injury no threatof injury could prevent himfrom risking his soft pink [End Page 233] Hands in the thorns of the wild blackberry bushesalong the lane / And just like that
he understoodhis cousin Igor’s favorite maximWhere there is sufferingthere is money to be made
Was wrongWhere there is sufferinghe leaned recounting close already
The money has been made [End Page 234]
Shane McCrae is the author of Mule, Blood, and three chapbooks—most recently, Nonfiction, which won the Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Best American Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Fence, Washington Square, and elsewhere, and he has received a Whiting Writer’s Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the brief-residency MFA program at Spalding University.
