
Category: holidays
she kept her honor

so he took her like an animal
but my father’s ghost wept
so she went to the men
like a good American
good people don’t want to believe
in visionaries good or bad
especially when you have red clay mud
starved stabbed scabbed over and over
on your grandmother’s dress from being raped just like her
from ft. Sumter to Wounded Knee
he’d never seen that color red come out of a living fertility statue
my veil is torn
the dog is dead
the natives have resumed their drumbeat
Ha!! Me, too…
Poof* Take MY water

this 30th of May
even the fireworks
sound tired
absent without leave
who can sleep
through the raging silence
of all our canceled parties
the moment he turned
and walked away
our world became peckinpah
i can no longer discern
whose blood
my hands are weeping over
dickens
Christmastime
finds
all of us
pleading with ghosts
shock jock
there are times
i feel like the only person alive
who feels that
one Bukowski
was enough
more painful
than losing the baby
was watching you cry
and
me remembering
the November
your sweet excuse
for everything was,
“Hey, I’ve got a pregnant wife at home…”