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A Poem for the Protestant Widow

Cara Losier Chanoine

It’s about the distance you achieve from sanity
when you burn the hung sheets
of a Protestant widow
on the backyard clothesline.

It’s about the scattered braying
of the Protestant widow’s cow
galumping after you,
across the buttermilk-blonde hayfield
while your left shoe slips off your foot like a wet trout.

It’s about the slingshot-snap-pinch
of remembrance that the Protestant widow does not, in fact, own a cow,
and you are actually being chased through the hayfield
by a large, ornery bull.

It’s about fear that bears the name
of the Protestant widow’s lover, who is chasing you
in a bile-colored pickup truck
and carrying a shotgun.

It’s about the celestial voices
descending from the heavens
to tell you that maybe burning
the Protestant widow’s sheets
wasn’t really that funny,
you’re going to be picking
shotgun pellets out of your calves
for a long time,
and you might really be going to hell
for this one.

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