The Chainsaw Bears / Erin Elizabeth Smith
The Chainsaw Bears Erin Elizabeth Smith dancing girl press, 2009 The Chainsaw Bears The chainsaw bears love burritos. They love summer baseball on AM radio. Clean skies, black like a wet chalkboard. They love sashimi- grade tuna, Spanish wine, the drive from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham. Licking honeysuckle in the spring. Ghost crabs haunting pre-dawn beaches. Sasparilla and gourmet ice cream sandwiches. Love old letters from seventh grade crushes. Shredding paper at their temp job. The lowered mail flag, drywalling, lifting the sheet from a made bed. They love using slow-cookers and the way alcohol can put another’s hand into theirs. Yet how will they ever get to know this, these painted, wooden bears?