To Anyone Within Earshot
by Robert Grant
To anyone within earshot
it was a head-snapping screech.
But by then we were witness
only to what happened after:
The man with scared, guilty
eyes exited his vehicle
to check on the woman
lying next to her bicycle—
its front tire warped and immovable,
the rear tire
making its
final
deliberate
rotation.
I’msosorryI’msosorryI’msosorryI’m
sosorryI’msosorryI’msosorryI’mso
sorryI’msosorryI’msosorryI’mso—
“I’m okay,” she said.
But she was just a finger snap away.
. . .
A week later, I saw that same man run that same stop sign.
About the Author
Robert Grant is a poet-screenwriter whose poems have appeared in DASH Literary Journal, Mudfish, The Esthetic Apostle, etc.—as well as on numerous unsolicited postcards to family and friends. Recently, he helped a retired US Air Force colonel write his memoir. He is currently at work on a family drama (screenplay).