TARPAULIN SKY
Spring/Summer 07

LAIRD HUNT
The Shallows

If it was true that her latest attempt to reconnect with certain key states of her childhood—in this instance by punching and clawing at the rain-soaked sand pile next to loading dock number seven until her arm was completely encased and her cheek lay soft against the wet surface—had been only a partial success, she had nevertheless managed to fall into a doze that took her not as she had hoped into the room from which all shapes had been banished, but at least into a corral where the horses, whose eyes dripped blood and black mucus, had not yet seen her.

Laird Hunt, a graduate of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, is the author of The Exquisite.