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Linda ‘E





E.J. Antonio

 

 

 

rituals in the marrow: recipefor a jam session




 

winter              float

catch broodin         wildeyelashes

set to flame

    anopera

skippin through ages                      larimarnuggets

            needa party:  rent

                        cardgame: bid whisk

                                    bread:loaf

white

green

                                    spam:a can

fried           any way

i          

served upset notice             terra-pottedthat bone

sullen marrow tricklin up

       garden peas tainted

            moldyleaves

            smushystems

            rotten             maggotmunchin

sweet             bitter

 

  gave em togreat-grandma

passed em to grandma

to momma

back to me

           

a thievin man stole the pot

               cattin man laid the kettle

            lazywoman    be trouble

            inmy sitting-chair

 

   worms

opened my 1807 coffin with a    hallelujah

  got my 2007gun to shoot em

in the field    copperhead     cottonmouth        bill collector

            coiled

            putdown sulfur

            smelldidn’t work

   went underground

came up

right side

wrong time

   man cut loose                         

in thegraveyard    blues

spinnin roulette

ashes  click

to  click  ashes  click

dust  click

to click dust…

left me out here

shot with my owngun

                                    damn!