the pumpkin tree; the hanging tree
the pumpkin tree; the hanging tree
the hanging tree was baiting me 1
with effing images of exes in effigy; 2
dangling by necks i held easily, 3
necks that had fit in my hands like keys. 4
why is the honor of pure murder reserved for daddy time? 5
what difference if the murder becomes mine? 6
as a matter of future record 7
you who become your father’s mothers, 8
you who are legally hung on the halloween gallows, 9
as a record of historical importance 10
a coven with gertrude stein, 11
ann sexton, sylvia plath and three brontës 12
and in your new england home 13
not a one was fired with oak and ambergris; 14
they were mostly put on the open ended rack 15
to dangle like worms on hooks 16
and when you understand at last what you likely catch– 17
necks with stretch marks, rope cuts; 18
then i’ll be willing to write your books. 19
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