Skeet Shooting Out West
By Jan Beatty

     Tired of the old questions, whose blood, whose cock,
she goes out among red-tailed hawk for shooting lessons.

     Cowboy Doug says: Here's your shell, inside
you've got the shot, gunpowder and this here's called a wad.

     Shooting her wad from the 20-gauge Winchester,
she imagines her real father (whoever he is) shooting his/

     making her. This makes her want a pump-action shot-
gun, something she can relate to. She dearly loves the smell of

     gunpowder, is this genetic? Maybe her father was
A cowboy, she's loving the gunmetal/kick in the shoulder/

     : lip on the V of her hand aroused, someone's blood
under her skin.