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Mr.
Huskey's work has appeared in Perigee:
Publication for the Arts, Red River Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review,
and Word Riot. A graduate of
Links
to his work may be found on the web at:
Jason L. Huskey
They
gather about the body,
a dozen
necks crooked toward the asphalt,
ghosts of
breath gossiping before class.
She made
the Dean's list last semester,
the one
for underachieving future accountants—
bits of
her brain now calculating the interest
of her
classmates from the cigarette butts
in the gutter.
She minored in public relations.
She was
smiling as the absent vehicle
tore her
to the mush at their sneakers.
Her eyes
curved in a kitten-like way—like the night
we chased
Orion down
the delta
of the Eridanus.