FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: DEAD DAYS Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words dead and/or day, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on November 15th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Dead Days will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, November 16th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Monday, November 11, 2024

Charlie Rivers

Day of the dead.          


Beautiful flowers

Special food 

Singing and crying

They are dancing their way to the cemetery 

to spend the day with the dead

Tradition says love the ones who have gone 


But I am raging against my dead

Papa was evil and I spill his blood now over white flowers 

I wish I could drink his blood 

Dance on his bones until they are sharp shards

Cut his face into long shapes of betrayal and lust


Madness begins at home 

His body is here now under the mossy grass 

I send the worms to work 

especially on his brain

Creepy bastard brain curled inside a treacherous skull


I will do a dance to celebrate the end of his rule

And eat these sweet cakes with a mouth free of Papa’s snake

I twirl spinning lovely in my red and white dress

Happy happy is his Death 

My own special Day of the Dead 

 

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