That One Night

by Duane Herrmann

With degrees in education and history, Duane L. Herrmann, award winning, internationally published historian, poet, and author, has work published in print and online in sixty-plus anthologies, over one hundred other publications, a scifi novel, nine collections of poetry, a local history, and stories for children. He has accomplished this despite having to survive  an abusive childhood, being challenged by dyslexia and ADHD.

An acquaintance

far from home

needed to sleep,

was offered the room

next to mine.

I, a naïve teen,

uninformed, unaware,

socially innocent;

he, twice my age

and that much heavier,

offered a massage,

curious, I accepted.

Midway through

objected to my undershorts –

I removed them.

In moving over me

I felt he had none too.

Then he poked

and asked for lube.

I froze, paralyzed,

unable to move or speak.

“You want it rough then,”

he chuckled and began.

What?!

I felt the handle

of a rake, or hoe, or shovel

going in and out –

it hurts!  It HURTS!

until he finished,

got off, thanked me

kissed my back,

then went to bed.

Next morning he

was cheerful –

I could not speak,

still felt him in me.

*Previously published in Remnants of a Life