"All That's Changed #3" by Gary Nolan
Two Poems by Lauren Gordon
Pa Sent Me to Town
Ma sprinkled my calico
make it sweet, Ma
sweet prairie grass sweet, Ma
hit it with spittle
Ma hot striking stranger eyes
all over my body
look at me strangely, Ma
say it with biscuits
say it with blackbirds sweet
are the uses of adversity
if you live like a barren field
lit with prairie fires
there isn’t a single rabbit left in this country, mother
Baby Freddie Disappears
to dirt
under a prairie breeze waves sweet
clean grass
in the pantry aproned under Ma
cloven apple
little brother one terrible day he straightened out his little
body and was dead
give us our bread, this daily day
this bread, this rye we have made
we eat and we under
and Pa’s fiddle sings and sings and sings
Lauren Gordon
Pa Sent Me to Town
Ma sprinkled my calico
make it sweet, Ma
sweet prairie grass sweet, Ma
hit it with spittle
Ma hot striking stranger eyes
all over my body
look at me strangely, Ma
say it with biscuits
say it with blackbirds sweet
are the uses of adversity
if you live like a barren field
lit with prairie fires
there isn’t a single rabbit left in this country, mother
Baby Freddie Disappears
to dirt
under a prairie breeze waves sweet
clean grass
in the pantry aproned under Ma
cloven apple
little brother one terrible day he straightened out his little
body and was dead
give us our bread, this daily day
this bread, this rye we have made
we eat and we under
and Pa’s fiddle sings and sings and sings
Lauren Gordon
Lauren Gordon is the author of four chapbooks, "Meaningful Fingers" (Finishing Line Press), "Keen" (Horse Less Press), "Fiddle Is Flood" (Blood Pudding Press) and "Generalizations about Spines" (Yellow Flag Press). She is also a Contributing Editor to Radius Lit
Gary Nolan is a visual artist, photographer and programmer. He currently works in support of the U.S. space program. You can view more of his work on flickr.
