“Shooter,” by Perry Janes (Poetry ’19)

Perry Janes, a July 2019 poetry graduate, was recently featured in the LEON Literary Review. Read an excerpt of “Shooter” below:

Shooter

There are things I don’t know,
can’t know, and maybe don’t want to,
including what a man’s teeth look like
through a rifle’s magnifying scope. Tonight
a frightened anchor on the radio reports
a gunman stalking Interstate 96 firing
into backseats, windshields, drivers behaving
erratically, causing pile-ups. I’m sick of
God and his potholes, the many mouths
opening relentlessly, beneath…

Read the poem in its entirety here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/2020/09/perry-janes-shooter/