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CMP Featured Writer: Joanna Grant

August 6, 2024 James D. Casey IV

Things I Googled After My Last Living Uncle Finally
Drank Himself to Death Just After Christmas

–Average regular funeral cost in this Year of Our Lord

–Cost of most basic cremation for people who can’t afford regular funeral

–Can I have my ashes scattered on Hank Williams, Senior’s grave

–Can I scatter them on Hank Williams’s grave legally

–If caught scattering my ashes on Hank Williams’s grave illegally what happens to

the person who scattered me hypothetically

–Penalty for stealing a corpse and setting it on fire outside Joshua Tree was

–Penalty for setting corpse on fire outside Joshua Tree is now

–Greatest hits (did you mean Gram not Graham Parsons—disambiguate)

–YouTube Flying Burrito Brothers videos (playlist approx. 1:43:36)

–How do you actually drink yourself to death and how long does it take (Mayo Clinic)

–YouTube: Best of Intervention Season 12 (playlist approx. 6:27)

–Alcoholism addiction causes (nature versus nurture current research)

–Addiction causes experts role of lack of connection complex childhood trauma

–Use of humor to deflect childhood trauma how bad is it really

–Alexa: how do I forget what I want to forget and remember what I need to remember

–No Alexa I said “remember” not “cucumber” not that kind of recipe

–Okay Siri then: to what extent am I my own person? How trapped am I in my past? How trapped am I in the things that happened sixty years ago, the night their mother slowly bled to death drunk on the floor, their father drunker next to her, her blood slowly rusting on his raw-knuckled hands? How to free myself of this mirage, this image concocted of vague description still clearer to my mind’s eye than anything I’ve ever actually seen in the flesh?

–Response: Your search did not match any documents please try different keywords/more keywords/fewer keywords/more general keywords/check your spelling/good luck/you are going to need it/Season’s Greetings and Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate/With the Warmest Wishes for the Happiest of New Years

Joanna Grant is a Cajun mutt, as her father was born on the Gulf Coast near New Orleans and her mother came from Georgia. She currently lives and works outside of Doha, Qatar, where she teaches college extension classes to deployed American soldiers. Her most recent collection is Adrift from Alien Buddha Press.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 04/05/24

April 5, 2024April 5, 2024 James D. Casey IV

Family History

It’s all about connections.

If we can only find them
we can all find our dynasty
we can all trace our family
back to its royal beginnings
see their place in that dynasty
through their connections.

If we can only find them
we can all be back there
then.

If we can only make them
we can all be there
now.

J’Accuse

It was almost accidental.
A reasonable response
to an aberration
of history.
You were all involved
in its creation
unchecked.

Monitoring
would have seen it starved
of self-deceit
acknowledged the lies
but you fed and watched it grow
fatter and fatter.

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today’ competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Light Journal and So It Goes.

Find Lynn at:
https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 01/05/24

January 5, 2024 James D. Casey IV

No One Leaves The Party

I have fallen asleep.
Perhaps I have gone home already.
I may imagine the pollens
of her voice, but the hostess says,
“All desire a home. No one wants
to go to one.”

I hear ‘One’ echoing around,
murmur in my sleep,
“One ceases to be one if we
hanker for it too often.”
The dreamy rag under our feet
spreads softness, engulfs the drink I spill.
Hush hides the glass fell for miles
from my hands.

The hostess says, “The place
you want to leave for the home matters.”

The author of Postmarked Quarantine has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of ‘Words Surfacing’. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe.

Layers of Half-Sung Hymns by Aleathia Drehmer

August 16, 2022April 26, 2023 James D. Casey IV

Layers of Half-Sung Hymns by Aleathia Drehmer is officially available! Click the link to grab a copy of this unfathomably deep collection. Sister Drehmer did some healing while writing this one. You can feel it in her words.

Layers of Half-Sung Hymns
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9QRLX6V?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writers, Nov. 2021

November 1, 2021 James D. Casey IV

November reminds me of family. The Great Feast. The best part was my Nanny’s shrimp stuffed mirlitons (Chayote, the unofficial squash of New Orleans) I try to make them at home every year in her honor, but never quite hit the mark. Her name was Aunt Mary Jane, but she helped raise me, my cousins, and also our parents when they were young. Then our kids when they eventually came as well. So everyone called her Nanny. She simply called us Heart, we all had one collective name. Whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever you’re celebrating this month/week/day or this very minute, love each other. Because we all have one collective name, Human. These moments and memories are all we really own in the end. Unless death goes digital.

Okay, enough squishiness, back to the business at hand. Y’all know what time it is! Below is this month’s lineup, and if you’d like to submit I’m about to start reading for February. Send 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com with a bio and author photo. No simultaneous submissions, please. Still not taking manuscripts, but keep your eyes peeled for our next release, Somniloquy & Trauma in the Knottseau Well by Tim Heerdink! More info coming soon, awaiting the proofs.

Write On,
J.D.C.IV
🤟💀

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writers, November 2021

My Left Sock
by Aleathia Drehmer
11/01/21

Nowhere and Capitalism
by AK Cola
11/03/21

3 Modern Haiku/Senryu
by Lori A Minor
11/05/21

Frailty’s Baggage – Dreaming of Jim Morrison
by Theresa Gaynord
11/08/21

3 Surreal Poems
by Joshua Martin
11/10/21

Ley Lines
by Ferris Jones
11/12/21

Jenny shoots up
by Emalisa Rose
11/15/21

Breakfast at Lucile’s
by Robert Cooperman
11/17/21

No TB – Please
by Hugh Blanton
11/19/21

A Bowerbird Implodes Above the Bank of Whys
by Jake Sheff
11/22/21