Wedmore, Suellen

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Volume 30Issue 2 Summer Article 187-15-2014Why He Should Not Have Been Sold 6,000Rounds of AmmunitionSuellen WedmoreFollow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westviewPart of the Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Photography Commons, and the PoetryCommonsThis Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals atSWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Westviewby an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For moreinformation, please contact phillip.fitzsimmons@swosu.edu.Recommended CitationWedmore, Suellen (2014) "Why He Should Not Have Been Sold 6,000 Rounds of Ammunition," Westview: Vol. 30 : Iss. 2 , Article 18.Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol30/iss2/18Why He Should Not Have Been Sold 6,000 Rounds of AmmunitionReprinted with permission from Quarterly Westby Suellen Wedmore—Aurora, Colorado: 7/20/12 Because the young woman in the theater's first row raises zinnias and her tomatoes are ripening, because her baby is teethingand her husband, away on business, dreams of three bare-legged girls eating ice cream cones.Because, in July, monarchs lay eggson the underside of milkweed leaves, and a hummingbird's flutter stirs the nasturtiums,and because today the sun rose with a green flash, le rayon vert, and I believed Jules Verne who wrote that those who see this will know love.Because the white-bearded man in the third row has a schnauzer that needs to be walked, and because his grandchildren are visiting tomorrowand he has four quarts of his own spaghetti sauce on a shelf in the freezer.Because the balding man in the fourth row doesn't want to die lonely, and because the man and woman beside him are afraid to make a commitment.Because the artist in the back of the theaterwill, for the rest of his life, swirling his brush into Winsor red, see blood, and because the university student in row five,who speaks Shoshone with his grandmother, is translating Native American myths: how in the beginning, Wolf, the creator, shooting an arrow beneath the body of the dead, could call them back to life.westview 3 3Suellen Wedmore Why He Should Not

Why He Should Not Have Been Sold 6,000 Rounds of Ammunition

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