his gun was nestled in an unlocked drawer his uniform was resting on a hanger his club suspended from a leather strap lay still inside the closet and all was quiet quiet quiet like every other morning when he returned nighttime patrolling over that was the rule taught in my childhood to make no noise […]
Margaret D. Stetz
Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Delaware, as well as a widely published poet, and also the Poetry Editor of The John Steinbeck Review (a Pennsylvania State University Press journal).