Four Poems
By Rebekah Morgan - May 27, 2019
(- THE MOST H O L I S T I C WAY TO CHOKE SOMEONE -)
Go ahead baby girl divine queen
Crack those black sunflower seeds open
Inside of your mouth
Suck some of the salt off the shell
Just a lil bit first though
And slide that tongue between the pieces
Chomp one little heart
Spit
RUINS AND ROOKIES
On my 26th birthday
A peacock did a mating dance at me
Right there
In front of my mama and grandma
In Arizona
Two weeks before
My first wedding
Now I’m here
And there’s a store called “White Lady”
A hand-painted Mason-Dixon child
I saw an old pig
Wearing your black jeans
A nod to “utopian” living
Summertime
Catchin’ lighnin’ bugs
I consistently accept beneficial elements
Like pink plastic ice trays
And extra sets of keys
I felt nervous and old as a child
I thought trains would run me over in my bed at night
Elves were in the basement
But most of all
I just want you to know, right now
That snakes are fragile
W A R R I O R S D A M A G E D
Returning in gloomy spirits
Returning with gaping wide-mouthed heads
With facsimile drawings of the calls for peace engraved
Into bloody knees with gravel
Cars crashing
Bodies flying
Blood flowing down hot
As red-pepper-in-July sidewalks
Posters marked with Sharpie
Fat-tipped love quotes Googled
On a gorgeous summer morning
The shepherd’s wife
Is hanging from a pipe
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These poems are from Rebekah Morgan’s Hotel Alexander, out now from House of Vlad