Initial Sightings West of Modern Appalachia
I have begun obsessing over otherwise uninteresting things
like the shape of my own skull
the roundness of it
or the fact that it’s not entirely difficult to imagine
it removed and stuffed neatly
in the mailbox
slick white falling from the table
like china
in a word: Paleolithic
like the ancestral grain in the mud of this river
which feels so ridiculous
smeared on the skin
there is nothing here really, in a prehistoric sense
although I once watched a man fasten a fish head
to a fence post
and he smiled when he saw me
big glacier teeth
I’m reminded of these things each time I come here
but each time, still: I am
heel-sunk-in-earth
wondering if the signs we’re waiting on from God
are supposed to be this obvious
or if the soul is even bigger
than a fist
or a goose heart
maybe it’s a question unrelated
to this feeling that everything
I’ve memorized
could theoretically catch fire
and I’m the only one I know prepared
for collapse
for: wind; shock; bite; wreck; swallowed down a throat—
my father would tell a story of this man, Pistol Jack
who drove his tractor into a lake
zonked out of his mind
and it became a sort of family joke
about the dangers of
farm equipment
not to mention how incessant a day is
or how ideas can so easily lodge themselves in a brainstem
and hold there like stalks
the leaves catching rain
it’s as if the extent of one’s memory is the extent
of a ribcage
how it basket-wraps the torso
in fossil, like a moon
like the drip-leak of oil
puddling in sheen
or the sour-apple color of a hubcap filled with antifreeze
—this is how you kill racoons
—how they simply
can’t stand it
pink tongues lapping
the dirty pond water
and you watch them—running zigzags, like trees
you’ve chopped into
struggling off the porch
the way an old gate leans
before collapsing
in the brush, a multitude
of stars
their little bowl chests
their paws
BLAINE PRESCOTT holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Oregon and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Houston. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Story, The Idaho Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. He is from Kentucky.
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