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The Youngest
Billy Howell-Sinnard is a poet living on the island of Moloka'i in the Hawaiian Island chain. He’s been published in Poetry Super Highway, Black-Listed Magazine, Victorian Violet Press, and Ocho #19 (an anthology). He has placed 2nd three times, 3rd two times, and made honorable mention with the InterBoard Poetry Competition. This is Billy’s second appearance in The Centrifugal Eye. Contact Billy (bhowellsinnard@gmail.com)
Billy
Howell-Sinnard
My father laid me in the snow, ran again into the burning theatre to grab Carroll balanced on the second-floor window ledge in his Roy Rogers pajamas, smoke's heavy hand on his back. In photographs, my brother posed like Charles Atlas, or wore a cape and drew a six-gun. Sometimes, I feel the cold on my back, lying in that drift, helpless, while Carroll imagined landing on his feet unscathed.