In the last raid
there were some unfortunate errors.
The hill of Calvary was accidentally
blown back to bits of dust,
ordnance, in addition, inadvertently
blowing apart the Garden of Eden.
If you look closely at this video,
you will see that
God, disguised as the luckiest man alive,
crossed a narrow bridge to safety,
just before the bombs exploded.
As you can see,
He hesitates, momentarily,
on the other side,
before moving on,
and never looks back.
is a sixty-nine-year-old retired refrigeration mechanic. Since his retirement in
2007, he has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, won the 2010 A. E. Coppard
Prize for Fiction, and, more recently, won Honorable Mention in the 2011 Allen
Ginsberg Poetry Awards. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paterson
Literary Review, Slipstream, The Dos Passos Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Green Hills
Literary Lantern, Amoskeag, and others.
He has published two chapbooks. Along the Highway, a collection of fiction,
was published by White Eagle Coffee Store Press in 2010, and his first chapbook of
poems, Terminally Human, was published in 2013 by Finishing Line Press.
For more information, visit his website, www.barrynorth.org.