I think of the engineer at the party
squeezing an egg in the kitchen
to demonstrate its architectural properties.
The ceiling creaks and I look up.
In Nebraska, your lover is touching you.
He’s gripping your thighs like a wheelbarrow’s handles.
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DAVID BRUZINA currently teaches reading, writing and rhetoric in the English Department of the University of South Carolina Aiken. He enjoys cooking, fishing, hunting, arguing, and goofing around with dogs.