The Bar
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I’ve sometimes wondered what happened to her, a girl I met in Chicago. I was on a one-day liberty during basic training and met her in a bar. I can’t picture her. I think she was pretty. At least I thought so then, as I remember.
I don’t remember what was said. It didn’t matter. She was a girl, and I was away from Camp Dewey. I suppose the both of us talked about the future, which would have arrived now for her as for me. I’ve sometimes wondered
whether life turned out as she wanted it to be— it seldom does, one way or the other, and there’s no point in feeling guilty— but I’ve sometimes wondered. [End Page 68]
STEPHEN GIBSON is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror (2017 Miller Williams Prize winner, selected by Billy Collins, University of Arkansas Press), The Garden of Earthly Delights Book of Ghazals (Texas Review Press), and Rorschach Art Too (2014 Donald Justice Prize, StoryLine Press).
