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Calendar<br />
ERIC CHILES<br />
The foreman’s office occupied<br />
the front end of the equipment<br />
trailer, wooden steps leading<br />
to a scavenged door - inside<br />
blueprints on a sawhorse table,<br />
a couple folding chairs, always<br />
a girlie calendar on the wall.<br />
Billy gleamed when he showed<br />
her off. Wouldn’t ya want<br />
a piece of that, he’d ask, patting<br />
her legs, the name Coleman’s<br />
Lumber across the top of June’s<br />
thirty days in the year 1966.<br />
Don’t the stain give her a nice tan?<br />
Outside, the frame of the bible<br />
church rose from the mud, stacks<br />
of two by fours and plywood golden<br />
in the morning sun. It was 9 a.m.<br />
coffee break, and we gathered<br />
to break bread and praise Billy’s<br />
handiwork in silent disbelief.<br />
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