Bag of Nails

Monica Carroll

Bag of Nails

 
 
John Wayne would never stand for this baloney. He’d eagle-eye from behind his eye patch and act out another trash movie. Where is the man I never was? The one who could rescue me, then fix the latch on the back gate to keep the goats from the corn?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Note: “Bag of Nails” was previously published in the Recent Work Press (Canberra) anthology: Pulse (2016, eds. Shane Strange and Monica Carroll) and is republished here with permission.

Monica Carroll used to hold the hose for the concrete mixer but now she writes. If you like creepy poetry, read her book Isolator (Recent Work Press, 2017). Or send her your creepy poems via monicacarroll.com.au.