Joan Colby

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A land dispute. He shot</div> <div> The rancher whose son then killed</div> <div> Him. All for what. Grandfather left six children</div> <div> And a wife in the Uinta mountains.</div> <div> They had to go on with their lives.</div> <bR> <div> It was just part of life.</div> <div> Father was nine when his first gun</div> <div> Was presented. Far from those mountains</div> <div> Of his birth. Excited, he shot</div> <div> A bird, then like any child</div> <div> Was dismayed to find that it was killed.</div> <bR> <div> He never again killed</div> <div> Anything. Said that life</div> <div> Was sacred as fatherless children.</div> <div> When he graduated, his mother gave him those guns:</div> <div> Dueling pistols, a pocket watch bloodshot.</div> <div> All he had of his father's lost mountains.</div> <bR> <div> In the house at the foot of the mountains,</div> <div> My cousins and I killed</div> <div> Time. Our eyes shot</div> <div> With risk. Risking our lives</div> <div> Maybe as we stared at Papa's gun</div> <div> Hidden in a cigar box. We were children.</div> <bR> <div> There are no children</div> <div> Now at this flatland farm. No mountains</div> <div> But we have a gun.</div> <div> The Browning unused since you gave up killing</div> <div> Pheasants or ducks. Since their lives</div> <div> Like ours, absolved of shooting</div> <bR> <div> Not even the raucous New Year's shooting</div> <div> Of our neighbors. Think how children</div> <div> Every day risk their lives</div> <div> Walking in the shadow of citied mountains</div> <div> Or simply being anywhere that killing</div> <div> Can happen. Anywhere there are guns.</div> <bR> <div> Guns. Mountains</div> <div> Of ammunition. Children's lives.</div> <div> Children being killed. This endless shooting.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>About the author</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, the new renaissance, Grand Street, Epoch, and Prairie Schooner. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards, Rhino Poetry Award, the new renaissance Award for Poetry, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. She was a finalist in the GSU Poetry Contest (2007), Nimrod International Pablo Neruda Prize (2009, 2012), and received honorable mentions in the North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Contest (2008, 2010). One of her poems is a winner of the 2014 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest. She is the editor of Illinois Racing News, and lives on a small horse farm in Northern Illinois. She has published 14 books including  <I>Selected Poems</I> from FutureCycle Press which received the 2013 FutureCycle Prize. Others include <I>Properties of Matter</I>, Aldrich Press (Kelsay Books), <I>Bittersweet</I> (Main Street Rag Press) and <I>The Wingback Chair</I> (FutureCycle Press.) Colby is also an associate editor of Kentucky Review and FutureCycle Press.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Pro Forma </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >is a 36 page hand-stitched chapbook.   $10.00</FONT></div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE             <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Galant" ><A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></FONT>                      </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Pro Forma"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="15-2"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.50"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Pro Forma"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="15-2"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="4.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Pro Forma"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="15-2"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>       </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>