Month: November 2017

the Holy Ghost woman spoke with tongues
that licked inside my tiny ears and
left them moist with noise

for homework
neighborhood kids
pulled out kitchen chairs
in the dirt front yard
of our duplex

so is courage stoked by
fire at one’s core?

grandfather holds the child
to his chest hoping
that both could get
a bit of a snore

I fight the urge to
whack him in the face.