Flattened somewhere on I-80
between the billboarded Jesuses
of Kansas, I’m hit by another
semi and do what I thought
previously impossible; leak
a bit more blood. All entrails
sprawling like when you drop
a bowl of spaghetti and broken 
jaw, I try my best to make do.
Adorn my skin with the crushed
glitter of a smashed headlight,
curl my hair with discarded beer
cans. All my friends are flat,
and we miss dimension, but take 
pride in not being vanquished quite yet. 

Eamon Dunn is a senior English major at the University of Vermont where his work won the Marion Berry Albee Award for Excellence in Composition, and he was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Vermont Cynic, UVM’s student newspaper. His journalism has been published in Vermont Public and Vermont Magazine, and his creative work has been featured in The Gist.