bloodsongs (poem)

we all have our hauntings that once looked like a hail mary.

Alkama (blood & Milk) by Frederic Fontenoy

i am vodka drunk by five and
pretending to read the lines on my palms as if i could
trace them back to the right wrong moment.

lately I’ve been singing
bloodsongs as i
rock myself to sleep
and lately i’ve been speaking
to ghosts.
we all have our hauntings
that once looked like a hail mary.

don’t you dare tell me i know
nothing of saving
when you can sing the
words every week’s end
and still be in the wrong place
talking to the wrong kind of god.

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“bloodsongs” is featured in In Parentheses Literary Magazine (Volume 9, Issue 1) Fall 2024

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