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Third Place Winner: Linda Carpenter
Breaking
we sit on the bench by the lake
where we always sit
smoking roll your owns and putting them out carefully in all this dry heat
a few feet down a fisherman fishes the weeds
I know him, not well
but I know who he is –
Frannie Frank's husband
too poor to buy meat, fishing from the bank each day
while she is off at night to play bingo
you aim your camera at something
I never ask what anymore, you won't say
Except I know it's no longer me
the man catches a legal sized fish
reels it in quickly
there is no sport to this
he removes the hook carefully
probably doesn't own many
I look at you looking thru the lens
the man
pulls out a screwdriver from a bag
the trout glinting in the sunlight
he slaps the fish over the head with it
it sounds like a heart
breaking.
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