“The Unexploded Ordnance Bin” by Rebecca Foust (poetry ’10)

The Unexploded Ordnance Bin

our son found the hollow shell
snub-nosed & finned
& looking like an Acme cartoon bomb
where we raked for clams
he wanted to keep it
& we wanted to let him

even the old oysterman wanted
to let him    but we’d read about
the shell found & kept
for three weeks by a boy
in Oregon before the powder
dried & it went off

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