Gut Shot, Alifair McCoy Prays to Wisps of Floccus (1888)
- Gut Shot, Alifair McCoy Prays to Wisps of Floccus (1888)
Lord of cotton burrs & swine ~lapping a cracked mash jug, ~Lord of aquamarine & the well ~bucket’s rotten hollow clatter ~up its shadow shaft, Lord of vitex ~& thunder, my poppy’s trenchant ~wrinkles & tarry nails gnawed ~to pink rugose moons, Lord ~of the scattergun & copper ~chapping my tongue, don’t ~let those drunken razorbacks maul ~my face like a gate-dazed hen, ~don’t let mama’s hands be ~the hands that drag me ~from these clouds stampeding [End Page 85]
Adam Tavel received the 2010 Robert Frost Award, and his forthcoming collections are The Fawn Abyss (Salmon, 2014) and Red Flag Up (Kattywompus, 2013), a chapbook. His latest poems appear or will soon appear in West Branch, Indiana Review, Zone 3, South Dakota Review, Bayou, Yemassee, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. Tavel is an associate professor of English at Wor-Wic Community College on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
