Catherine Pierce is the author of Animals of Habit (Kent State University Press, 2004), a winner of the Wick Chapbook Competition. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Slate, Smartish Pace, Barrow Street, Mid-American Review, and Bellingham Review. She is currently a PhD candidate/Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Missouri. "Quién es?" Catherine Pierce        —last words of Billy the Kid Sawdust. Dark rivers winding through it and his own hand a raft. This sudden thirst. And a pounding coming towards him, an animal bellowing, and something warm across his throat, feathery as pollen. He cannot say who the boots belong to. He thinks, what a sudden sleep. He will wake tomorrow and tell the story of how he almost vanished. Breakfast of griddlecakes, fried eggs, steak. Then he will get on the piebald and steal the next girl he sees. She will ring like a silver bell. He will love her right to water. Or it is morning already, light against his eyelids like a blade. And the girl has come, rosed and braided, done up like a painting. She eddies into the bright place. He holds his breath to follow under and down.