Wanda Morrow Clevenger - Two Poems

Pockets Full of Posey

 

There is no saving your daughters from

after school villains, their pockets full

of posey;

 

daughters will follow these boys anywhere,

try anything to prove they're not children

anymore;

 

a hand will press against the back of your

daughter's head, and her eyes shut, she will

grow up anyhow.

 

 

 

The Poet

 

the poet shouts piety––

how learned is sidewalk stank

how some piss gold

 

while he zips up

leans on laurels

laid down for twelve

ninety-five

 

 

 

Wanda Morrow Clevenger lives in Hettick, IL – population 200, give or take.  She’s widely published with over 300 pieces of work in 114 print and online publications.  A full-length poetry manuscript is currently stalking unsuspecting presses.

Wanda Morrow Clevenger - Two Poems

Circus Flaminius

Not even Moses wrote the sin of Eve;
anonymous product
a 5th century wag of unjust finger, and
the brethren shout hallelujah at
Sodom and Gomorrah virgin sacrifice.

Now new charlatans circle for the kill;
televised Circus Flaminius
public stoning of woman's womb―
Kirk Cameron trips over his tongue.




Penis People

Until accused that time
right to my face of being a tease
―before I knew how and when to work it―
work the stuff I had, such as it was,
I hadn't given tease credence;

and until the waitress tips, sacred tokens for wearing
Sacajawea braids that one customer liked awfully much
and said so to my red cheeks;

and later still the lame one-liners
so diabolically lame;

it hadn't occurred that
I wasn't the tease, but skillfully teased into
a plaything for the penis people.



Author Wanda Morrow Clevenger has placed over 185 pieces of work in 67 markets.