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Drinking in the Company Truck Taneum Bambrick (bio) We’re six, tossing glass beer bottlesat the hole of a fire pit. Six worn through back pockets. The print of chew-disks. We spitred. We smoke. Binocular women on speed boats. Call their chests bald eagles.Jail bait. Joke about one’s daughter’s age. Six experience labor devaluation—ex loggers ex construction. Six thieves in a field of onions. Cry while skins open.The freeway heat. Cry drinking water bottle whiskey. Corona from an emptyPepsi. We’re six hated. Six sexist. Six reactions to one’s dying wife.The wind chimes she cut from cans of Bud Light. How, without one, five fight. Knuckles twisted white.Five sweep webs off the ceiling slats of a duck blind. We’re flashlights scouring that dirt roadlooking for one’s lost pocket knife. [End Page 18] Taneum Bambrick Taneum Bambrick is the author of the chapbook Reservoir, selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee Poetry Chapbook Contest. She will be a 2018–2020 Stegner Fellow. Copyright © 2018 Pleiades and Pleiades Press
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