Hoosier Burial

Hoosier Burial

yellow dress yellow hat twinkling eyes
red blood

white lilies blackened uterus elderly eyes
childlike fear

blue scrubs sterile steel outdated magazines
stifling room

The womb
that bore
my father
extracted,
incinerated
with the flesh
of strangers.

white morphine empty eyes yellow leaves
Hoosier burial​

This poem was previously published in http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/