Aricka Gannon
Joined February 2021
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Winter.
The truck slipped off the highway the way water slips over a kitchen counter, gliding along the smooth surface before it throttles to the floor, scattered and fragmented, spread out on the tile the way the pick-up and its parts disbanded over the bank of the Grand River. The truck weighed 4,300 pounds on its own and carried in its bed a 400-pound laundry machine, but it wasn’t enough to crack the ice when it tipped over. Before the pieces of his vehicle could settle over the frozen ground, the driver was struck by a sharp and bitter death. The newspaper showed the young man’s father facedown next to his son’s fallen truck. The ice fracturing beneath his burning cry.
By Aricka Gannon3 years ago in Poets