~Cats' Eyes~

WordWulf By WordWulf, 31st Jan 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/j758kw2m/
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~I remember circles drawn with crooked sticks in fresh summer dirt, steelies and aggies, hot sun and glass orbs~

~Cats' Eyes~

~Cats' Eyes~
~Cats' Eyes~

Cats’ eyes stare from under the car. I used to shoot them when I was a boy, rounds of four-hole and poison when you reached it, five-pot in the middle. I remember circles drawn with crooked sticks in fresh summer dirt, steelies and aggies, hot sun and glass orbs, ball-bearings far from the wound of their greased sleeves, pockets worn into holes, bare feet and stone bruises, wrestling in the Projects with brown children, beaten for a dime, proud as a piss-ant and twice as hungry, cats’ eyes tied into knots in a bag, cobwebs and a box of old shoes, spider bones and ashes.

Tom (WordWulf) Sterner

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Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)

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