Charles Hood, Boneyard
Badger Cab
Pitch and yaw a loose-
strung puppet or wild
yarrow buffeted
in whipsaw winds
wild bells stripped of
stillness toppling
mother-daughter cartwheels
unstrung in green
woods waving
as Zoot Sims bit
my arm in that Badger Cab
in the wild silence
of the driver’s yawn
Zowie!
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Sue Chenette
Review by Massimo Fantuzzi
Wild silence: I can’t think of a better definition for what the poetic effort is and represents. If nobody has anything against it, I will use it again.