Suburban Ambush

by Ron Kolm

They firebombed

The dinner table

Taking us completely

By surprise.

We evacuated

Our casualties

From the patio–

Tracers skittering

Across the summer

Sky.

Dad is a memory

We’re trying to keep

Alive.

Ron Kolm is a member of the UNBEARABLES literary collective ; he has edited several of their anthologies. He is the author of The Plastic Factory and with Jim Feast, the novel Neo Phobe. He is a contributing editor at Sensitive Skin Magazine and the Senior editor at Evergreen Review and his papers have been purchased by the NYU Library.