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An Indian's Skull on Display at the Smithsonian
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eric Beeny, 24, has published several chapbooks with Crescent Anchor Press, including This Isn't Professional Boxing (untitled), Histogram City, Minimal Animals and Dead End on Progressive Ave. His work has appeared in 32 Poems, Artvoice, Circle Magazine, Images, Megaera, Out of Order and Tin Lustre Mobile. He lives and works in Buffalo, NY.
by Eric Beeny



healing is a memory walking

backwards on crutches without falling

over across the street from an old armory

no one seems to notice it never happening