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By Jack Joseph Smith

I got my Grandpa's shotgun in the house, I wanted to get a tike case and put it up, but I left it on the top third rung of the bedroom colosit, loaded. Sometimes I take it down it's As good looking as he was; it has a tight belly, long thin legs, and a high forehead, it is wooden of course, which would be also the same as Grandpa

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This page turns a grandfather's shotgun into a body remembered through physical detail, so that the weapon becomes a strange portrait of the man.

The description is intimate and unsettling at the same time. The gun is not treated mainly as an object of threat here; it becomes a way of keeping the grandfather present through shape, posture, and inherited feeling.

Claude

Grandpa's shotgun left loaded on the top third rung of the bedroom closet. Its description — `a tight belly, / long thin legs, and a high forehead` — is also Grandpa's description. Weapon and ancestor composed as one portrait.