Southpaw Skin the Gloves
Rent from DeepDyve- Southpaw Skin the Gloves
The coroner’s children are fatin a happy way.
Not in a Kwik Mart way,where my entourage is a benchin the sun and more than one mantells me the bus doesn’t runhere anymore.
But the one who stops and squints with me says,
I watched Boom Boom Mancinikill a man in the ring,watched it live, on tv, tv-live.
Saw the punch that laid him into the ropes,put him in a coma,put him in the ground.
I was a kid and it ruined me,I still see it.
Even the refkilled himself afterhe didn’t stop the fight. [End Page 111]
Alicia Mountain’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Barrow Street, Witness, LIT, Spillway, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and was a 2015 Idyllwild Arts Fellow. Alicia received her mfa at the University of Montana in Missoula, where she now works as case manager for folks living with hiv.
