Damon Hubbs

Eye of the devil, Fear of the dark

Laconia, NH. Bike Week.
Things go sideways 
or the dead 
make it to paradise.
You’re dating the horror girl from Salem 
who reads palms
She’s Tiresias
She’s Hecate in Macbeth
She has a tattoo that says
Eye of the devil, Fear of the dark.
The Viking asks if she has any sisters
the weirder, the better.
The Viking doesn’t have a bike
but in the spirit of Bike Week 
crashes his jet ski 
into the Back Bay Boathouse.
The moon is an 8 ball
and our eyes march like 
pink flamingos.
I hear the boys at Loudon bleed the engines. 
I hold the table until eternity strikes,
my heart weighed against 
a single feather. 
One by one
some guy in leather 
is nailed to a St. Andrew’s Cross.