butch closed his eyes and leaned heavily against the door and the door fell open and he tumbled to the ground , black coils twisting and turning out the opened door , spinning about his arm , and the ball hit with a sickening thud , flattening the cab , the shattered front window popping out in a lazy arc , the heavy branch caught in the twisted , crushed wreckage and the coils which held his arm uncoiling , spiralling away .