Tires piled out back.
Stink of old oil.
Saturday night and Coors
and fishing Charlie Creek
up north. All that
shit. Male bonding,
I'm told, essential to
the development of the
male psyche. So Frank
shot a buck one afternoon
and his wife the next
morning. Her father, the
sheriff, was first
on the scene.
Grove Koger is the author of When the Going Was Good: A Guide to the 99 Best Narratives of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure (Scarecrow Press, 2002) and Assistant Editor of Art Patron Magazine and Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal. He blogs at worldenoughblog.wordpress.com.