Jennifers Journal: Snatched by the Greys

Anyone who liked her, more specifically George Fix, a defensive end who could bench press a VW bug, which is what Marissa drove. His mother was Greek, his dad was a roto-rooter man. Think of George as a bird of prey snatching an innocent pigeon from the air. I was poised to mow lawns all summer, and Marissa was poised to save drowning kids when she climbed her lifeguard tower, and the sun was poised to forever purge paleness from the vocabulary of her skin, and her body was poised to cause car crashes if you stared too long when she walked home.

If by smarter you mean not making moves on Marissa, then yes. When I came up with DB, short for decoy boyfriend, she howled with laughter—my pet name the rest of the summer. She was a cheerleader but had a head for math. Religious but a Sabbath breaker, anorexic but not about food. Always fighting to control something: And she loved horses, I mean from faraway, watching them run. On lucky days when Georgie Porgie was on the prowl. It was a lot like voodoo, only I was pushing pins into myself. Of course I minded but covered it up.

All three girls were placebos. Still, he had his ways. He even egged my house, yolks dripping down our picture window like yellow blood.

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He left a note: We went on milkshake runs, and once caught a movie. I remember the sprinklers, ka-chaw, ka-chaw, the big industrial ones, the way they notched forward, spraying fifty feet, cool water in pursuit, ka-chaw, then ti-ti-ti-ti, flipping back to start again. We dodged them like felons, but secretly I wanted to get hit. Oodles of kissing—in my mind at least. And she peeled my back. Over the Fourth I got this monster sunburn waterskiing. A week or so later, after the blisters, I started peeling like a mummy.

When she saw me, she led me into her backyard. She had me take off my shirt and laid me out on her pink beach towel that smelled like coconuts and bananas and baby oil. Smelled like her in other words. My whole back was snake skin. I came apart in these long strips like when you put glue on your hand in first grade and let it dry. At first she did, a regular emergency room doc stitching up a patient, then just her hands moving across my back, like she was a blind woman reading a contoured map.

Then she said, Just a sec, and ran inside, returning with a fresh-cut piece of aloe vera, which she held like a pencil. I mean who has aloe vera? I winced at the first touch. Next she made loops with that icy wand. I asked what she was writing. My back felt gooey and cold but somehow clean. Not then and not now. I mean I was lying on her towel, and it was pink, and I was a secret message written in lemon juice.

I tried putting on my shirt but she said wait till you dry. She took the snake babies between her hands, rubbed them into flecks, and blew. They lifted like dandelion seeds. I was waiting to dry, waiting for her to tell me when. My back was all signature, my back was about to disappear. Lance Larsen, former poet laureate of Utah, has published five poetry collections, most recently What the Body Knows Tampa He raises hostas, bikes, and dabbles in aphorisms: Bob drove off the pier in his finned Studebaker with flash and flair carried over from his bomber days.

Some say a life of single malt and big losses at the track had worn him down, others that he'd simply had enough. Nearing the end of his preparations, he was leaning on the horn as though it were a siren clearing the squadron briefing room prior to a mission. He arrived as director and doomed star, an arm out the window in salute, defiance or surrender.

He mounted the gutter and crossed the boards, splintering the fence then going out and down, a diminishing gleam under the skin of the tide. Not every bee loves a colony.

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