red booth
review

issue 12ve
 		 Grocer in Holbrook

Her father chased a western dream
running out of gasoline, on his way
to California, twenty-eight years ago 

stopping only
for cigarettes and soda,
she resents
the way we blow through town 

refusing my suggestion
she carefully counts back
the exact change
 

- Shawnte Orion
 
 
 
  

Shawnte Orion lives in Surprise, AZ. His poetry was recently published in Stickman Review, Tryst, Hinge, Melange, and Pierian Springs and is forthcoming in Copious Magazine. 
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