Lizzie Lifted Up My Wrist, image by Irene Koronas
Swiss
Army Knife
Lizzie
enlisted her Swiss Army knife,
started
sawing away at my arm as I arranged
my
rock collection in our dirty basement,
which
she was visiting. Joanna dozed in
the
corner. As she saw first blood, Lizzie
lifted
up my wrist, which was being used,
&
sucked away. It so happens this, my first
genuine
affair, hit me at three, with a witch
&
a vampire who I loved, but who lived
to
rock the proverbial boat. I took her on
rock
collecting expeditions in the woods
near
the Old York Road Little League fields,
&
she remained happy as long as her steel
did
its business, which I liked then, still feel.
—Adam
Fieled
