JD DeHart is a writer and teacher. His blog
can be found at jddehart.blogspot.com and his
first chapbook, The Truth About Snails, is due
Fall 2014.
I wanted to be a hero
and sat at the kitchen table,
running my fingers over
images of pulp figures.
Rain had a bad habit
of coming in around the metal
back door of the old house.
Days earlier, the porch had been
pried off to be replaced.
With a clap of sound, my father
opened the door and went
flying, returning ghost white,
my mother frantic, a trickle
of scarlet running down his leg.