David A. Bart - poems
  • Intro
  • Home
  • Kingdom Come
  • Tunnel of Love
  • Exit Now
  • The Passion
  • Texas Education
  • Dumb Supper
  • Good Year
  • Toys
  • Saint Michael and the Devil
  • Invisible Knights
  • The Rain Gauge
  • Ponder
  • Remainder
  • Green Ghost
  • December 13th
  • Dedication
  • Prevailing Wind
  • Dreamland 1911
  • 10
  • On the Median
  • These Things Happen
  • White Water
  • The October People
  • Scene from a Moral Panic
  • Estrellita
  • Another Ending
  • What We're Dealing With
  • How Did the Foxes Die?
  • There was a Man
  • Bio. and credits
Remainder


It’s been twenty-one days.
Sarah could have sworn she saw
Bianca’s face, blurred in the smoky
glass of a crawling, brown sedan.
A stunned classmate looked twice
at a girl in the mall—it wasn’t Bianca,
hand held by a mothering stranger.
For a moment, she was just behind
the shelf of library books,
a voice from the other side,
papers handed in without
a name, laughing shoes hiding
beneath the slide at recess.
She was a glimpse of some other
child rattling a bike over cracked
asphalt, circling the vacant lot where
Bianca’s ten-speed was found.
After three weeks, the delusion
of permanence makes seventh graders
glance up to see their classroom’s phantom
limb, a desk removed, since Bianca
was taken to the corner of their eye.



Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
Fall / Winter, 2007

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