Kiefer, Kim

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Exile Volume 29 Number 2 Article 5 1982 Before We Could Build Kim Kiefer Denison University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/exile  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Kiefer, Kim (1982) "Before We Could Build," Exile: Vol. 29 : No. 2 , Article 5. Available at: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/exile/vol29/iss2/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Denison Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Exile by an authorized editor of Denison Digital Commons. "Before We Could Build" Two crows on the telephone wire line black-eyed and sassy. We are squinting at the sun waiting for relief of the ice cream man and banana scooter pies knees holding chins skinny elbows playing hide and seek with sweater holes. We live in the real world everyday after school at Gard's market. I best friend myself to you by chewing on your wet watermelon Bub's Daddy gum And you climb the Jenkins fence to touch the one-eyed dog a sign of everlasting trust. We skip school on spelling test days and win the three legged race at the sixth grade track meet. Your liver brown summer skin pulls you through the chlorine faster than mine ever could But in kickball I am the champ. 34 

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