By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
jump in a river
jump because Van Halen
said so
jump to conclusions because
of a faulty leg from the war
that makes the VA hospital
look like the Sears Tower
on crack
the way you limp through the
front door and your wife
tries not to look at your leg
before everything else
but you see it
which is enough
to know.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, Setu, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.
Academy of the Heart And Mind 