Scott Simpson · Poetry

Rock Salt

Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 229

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Source page 229

Rock Salt

we stole

from the water softener

in Kirk's basement

and took the pills into our

mouths

like magic

to see visions

popping salt

in a dark corner behind

boxes of

church tracts

Bible study film strips

and worn out shoes

we were Apaches

running over miles of desert

without water