Just One Mountain Away

they raped the Brily girl
and smashed her head with a rock
lunging away at her

while old man Brily sat
in the bar telling us
his daughter was a whore
and would never enter
his house again.

“Come home knocked up.
Wanted us to take her in
as if I’d have anything to do
with a bitch carrying
a spic baby.”

They didn’t find the boys
who did it. The uncle paid
for the funeral.
Buried in a closed coffin
so no one could see
her smashed smile.

Her father stood
at the edge of the graveyard
when they lowered her down
drinking cheap whiskey
puking and crying

just one mountain away.