TITA, COLORADO

Our food bag went
missing last night.

"I'm hungry,"
I said.

Maggie turned, took
my arm with her right
hand,

squeezed my bicep;

"Sit down."
She pushed me
to the earth.

"Eat this."
Maggie paused
as she heard music
leave the woods.

"Hey."
She called to me.
"Eat this."

Maggie stepped behind
me and I turned.
An axe and
my mouth.

My lips split right
down
the middle

I coughed once,
lungs filled with bad
smoke

and I lay
on the earth and
fill up.