WATCHING MY GRANDDAUGHTER’S GYMNASTICS CLASS
WHILE CONGRESS DEBATES AR-15s
By Andrew Hidas
Everything to live for,
the everything
stretched out
before them,
gamboling like lambs
let loose
to bound
and bound
in the
tall grasses of spring.
Parents on their phones
up above, a half-eye at
most diverted from Facebook,
the glowing faces
of their daughters
lost in the jumble of
limbs below.
“He shot my friend that was next to me and I thought
he was going to come back to the room, so I grabbed
the blood and put it all over me.”
That was Miah the other day,
testifying to a House committee
on the trickery she used to save
her life, though what nightmares still
await that life we can only, grimly,
imagine.
“Sweet Miah,” Uvalde’s only pediatrician
called her, trailing off at the same hearing
after describing the scene at ...
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