.
ode on crubeens
the pig's feet are boiled
& cost eighty bits
apiece
eaten by hungry
fingers
free forks
by teeth decaying
buildings hanging
an industrialized cityscape
in the framing of a
dutch angle
the economic boot
of colonialism
grinds deep
on the neck of erinnBio:
My poetry has appeared in nine countries in such literary journals as The Cannon’s Mouth, Ascent Aspirations, generations and Write On!!! I am a student at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville, where I have studied poetry in workshop settings with such poets as Jesse Janeshek, Marilyn Kallet, Arthur Smith, and Marcel Brouwers.
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