Previous Poem  |  Return to the Poetry index page  |  Next Poem The Arm by Dennis McBride from Looking for Peoria: The Epicurean At Rest (1995) She stepped partly out into the street I was driving down, from between two parked cars with her green short-sleeved shirt, and I saw there was only one arm, the front sleeve of the left blowing lightly in the wind. And then she emerged fully into the street. I had seen incompletely, too quickly. She brought her other arm, her second one, into the street. She had two of them. It was wonderful. Previous Poem  |  Return to the Poetry index page  |  Next Poem

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