They had her— hands flat on the back of the phone booth altar. They had her Prada bag’s strap between her teeth and its big pink bulk weighed heavy on the back of her neck, so she couldn’t see them. It could’ve been the weight of her wallet that made the strap cut the corners of her glossed lips or the can of organic hair spray she never used but carried for protection. She could hear it clang against her shoulder blades as they took turns. One held her up while the other buried himself inside her.
Editor of the recently released anthology In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief (Foothills Publishing/Sherman Asher Press) and the critically acclaimed anthology, Skyscrapers, Taxis and Tampons (Fly By Night Press 1999), Amy Ouzoonian is a poet, playwright, and editor for A Gathering of the Tribes magazine. She is the publisher and founder of Lock n' Load Press and the author of a book of poems, Your Pill (Foothills Publishing 2004). She lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY.
