der•rick /dérik/ n.

1. a hoisting apparatus.
2. framework over a hole, drill hole for supporting machinery (oil).


As he derricked himself over her, she thought of her orchard, the rows of apple trees, how the apples would be intermittently falling, how the little crooked toothed Mexican kids would be shaking the branches, clutching greedily at the fruit, how she would later find the rows plundered, empty, naked in the fall breeze, twisted like arthritic claws, how she would load her shotgun and catching a glimpse of herself in the front entry way mirror, would smile warm and benevolent; how even after her retribution had soothed her pain, packaged and sealed it like unidentifiable remains under a public monument, she thought it funny that she could let this man into the delicate foyer of her womb but was incapable of letting him stumble into her refridgerator heart.