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NOTEBOOK
checkered with light brown planks. I
walk by the front door, held shut with
scraggly baler twine.
I walk around the silo, to the left
of it. There are no cluttered doorways
but a ground ramp rising to the second
floor. Making my way up the ramp's
side, I carefully jump on large rocks.
The big sliding barn doors are off
the rollers and leaning against the
barn. I slip inside. I walk to the
collapsed concrete floor. A steel
girder betrays initial repairs. The
girder supports the ends of wooden
beams, spaced apart. I look down
between the beams.
There are heifers on the ground
floor, "smoke" chugging from their
nose holes. They look up and notice
me. As they nervously move about,
their hooves click on the mounds of
frozen manure. Their fur is dirty and
matted, their large stomachs taut.
Their eyes are wet black -brown
marbles.
I shiver in the cold darkness.
I look back at the basketball hoop.
The mesh is torn but the structure
remains strong, forging into the air
like a tired warrior, positioned there
like a curse.
When I was 17, my sister helped
me put it up and I yelled at her for not
doing better. I screamed at her in a
rage because 1 wanted it to be perfect;
the basket's wooden frame had to be
solid — durable.
She finally got mad and fed up and
left, but not before she knew I could
handle the remaining construction
myself.
I screamed at her — a useless,
absurd, self-destructive act — like my
father had screamed at me for other
things. She must have wondered why
I got so angry.
Everything's always there.
Behind the backboard, bright pins
of sunlight try to push through the
wall planks, getting in between the
cracks. I go through a crack to get
back outside, to the fresh air and
bright sunlight.
My steps ring lighter as I walk
back to the house.0
The author of "Road" grew up in
Bruce County.
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