WHAT A GAL

by Stephen Jarrell Williams

Hot night

taking my woman
naked in the backyard
dancing

spinning her around
smoking my cigar

catching her on fire

her long blond hair
flaming

I smack her in the head
a battery of blows
snuffing out the flames

her fizzled hair black and wiry
eyes wide

I turn the hose on
watering her down

her boobs speckled with ash

she laughs
doing me like a different woman

her head smoldering
bouncing her body on top of me

the moon looking down
with a couple of neighbors
giggling behind the fence.