pray – Cajun Mutt Press

Dear Marshall,

I prayed for you in 1999, legit offered you up in a request at Bible study. I didn’t actually hear an Eminem song till later—the one about the trailer park girls—yet back then in my living room with other young married couples, I prayed for your salvation.

I forgot to notice you for a decade, exchanged friend groups for new ones, and you went to rehab. When a homie slid Relapse into my CD player, I took myself to Best Buy to get my own copy.

You presided over morning joy and were loud over hours of sex. I won’t ask how getting gospel-saved worked out. Just wanted you to know I prayed for you when we were both young and understood the world in one dimension. Maybe you felt God’s hand over the years. I hope you’ve settled into life, wiser than before we were vintage, grateful to still be alive for now.

With much respect,
Catherine

Two lifetimes ago, Catherine performed her poetry in Madrid. Now her main jobs are to write and hang out with her family. Her work has appeared in Pank, Deep Water Literary Journal, and The Grief Diaries. Her chapbook, Soul Full of Eye, is published through Kelsay Books.

Find her on twitter @czickgraf. Watch/read more at http://www.caththegreat.blogspot.com

Ley Lines

Have we failed the stars
whom influence us?
The innocence of our beginning?
Before us stretches our regret.
Wrecked, not regaled
by the warfare exploding.
We urge our gods for thunder.
With it our delight
for our children.
A realm of water and supported gates.
Order the blood from the pigs lurking.
Sentence the destructor.
And pray among the plum fields.
Let us then dance with the artists.
Signal the spending
of celestial inspiration.
Continue with us
and declare the pastels
of our torches will not fade.
Support the spirits
of the thicket dwellers.
Show us the way.
The way of our forefathers’
sacred canoes.
Lay routes upon the public seas.
Examine us as we traverse.
Hold our hand to clean the earth.

Ferris E Jones is an award-winning, internationally published and screenwriter living in Puyallup Washington. His work has appeared in both print and online magazines including as the featured poet for Creative Talents Unleashed. Other magazines include: Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2020, Glo Mag, Piker Press, Se La Vie Writers Journal, Write on Magazine, Outlaw Poetry, Degenerate Literature 17, Tuck Magazine, The Literary Hatchet, Warriors with Wings, In Between Hangovers, and many other literary publications. He is the recipient of two grants from the Nevada Arts Council and the Editor/Publisher of Nevada Poets 2009. Ferris has twice received honorable mention awards from Writers Digest annual screenwriting contest. He is also the Author / Editor of ten collections of poetry. You can learn more about Ferris E. Jones by visiting http://www.inquisitionpoetry.com where each month he features the work of other poets. The goal of this site is to spread the word of poetry throughout the world.

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