panicked screaming,
heavy thumps followed by glass shattered
a neighbor called it in
the police came faster than before
and dragged her raging from the house
heels through the jagged shards of broken ashtray
onto the porch in smears of blood
I didn’t call them I swear to god
they handcuffed the man’s bruised fists behind him
he didn't resist
you bitch, you fucking bitch
drunken, red eyes rolling,
a running gash along the forearm
from a suicide threat
three children
two girls holding hands with a boy of five
emerged behind the rest
and stood crying together on the
yellowed lawn
but the police said the woman was hysterical
shut the fuck up you stupid bitch
slammed her head in the cruiser door
the children saw her finally relent
from the eyebrow gash
a cascade of red painting the eye shut
an officer led her to the grass where her children hugged her and cried
and the police took their father away
so there was peace
for those two days
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