temporary restraining order. By jck hnry

i bumped into my past / recently / a friend / from high school

she looked at me / confused / after i said  hello / as if we'd never met

as if we never fucked / in the back / of her daddy's Camaro / in 1981

recognition came slow / memory incomplete / we made small talk

she seemed / nervous / as if someone / might catch her / talking

to a stranger /

it's been 37 years / since we connected / in the Camaro / before church

and sometimes after

i asked about family / kids / and related / seems she has a son / and three daughters

the boy is 36 / that gave me pause

two weeks later / a TRO is presented / she doesn't want me coming around / as if

i knew where she lived / or cared

jck hnry is a neo-modernist, post-apocalyptic writer, living in the hard scrub of a californian desert.  after a 10 year hiatus hnry is back at it.  recent publications include:

includes publication in Horror Sleaze Trash, Bold Monkey, Red Fez, dope fiend daily and a bunch of other noble zines and journals.  Chapbooks/Books: “Snow in Summer and the Playground is Closed,” “Empty Houses-Kendra Steiner Editions,” “the Downtown Cafe (Erbacce Press),” “With the Patience of Monuments (neoPoesis) ,” “Crunked, (Epic Rites)” and “the Righthand Curve of a Continuous Circle. (Blunt Trauma Press).”  hnry is also editor and publisher of "Heroin Love Songs, V2.0, 7thEd" available now. for more go to jackhenry.wordpress.com.