Editor’s Note: Three Rivers resident and accomplished writer Alfonso C. Hernandez submitted the following excerpt from a longer work. In the light of our police situation in Fresno, if not around the world, the lines are timely.
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The Grand River pebble barely touched the left ear of the
Near retirement Mexican border American Sheriff
But the bullet pierced the heart of the Mexican fifteen-year-old
Youngblood painted the river sand under the desert high noon sun
The vital élan left from his tender body as vapor with a Scent of Death.
