DANIELLE LEA BUCHANAN

HOW TO GIVE AND LOSE LIKE A FIRING PEN

Chambers in a Colt .357 Magnum Single Action Revolver : 6
Chambers of the Vena Cava: 6

1.Stuff pulmonary arteries with gun powder
2. Clip & burn edges to solder
3.Load the cylinder
4.Cock the barrel
5.Your love's mouth
6.Opening
7.Wider
8. Shhhhh
9. Trigger

i__you/.
(Reload)

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(Reload)

who?._you

(Reload)

i _.how/?

(Reload)
i__.i__/.

Why? Why?

(Reload)

you__i/.

(Reload)

you/. I__
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. . . . .

(Reload)

Danielle Lea Buchanan pursues poetry in Baton Rouge. She is poetry editor of New Delta Review. Her work appears in Mid American Review, elimae, Dinosaur Bees, Robot Melon, Untoward Magazine, Whole Beast Rag, NNATAN and other elsewheres.