Christmas Poem for Jodi Cold brokeMontgomeryfrom St Louis Bayto Neese, the housesfroze like houses freeze,bathroom floors,a flower frost bit,the whole countryand would-be countrysplit like a snow weightedtree, so appropriate towatch the whisperingyel…  | By The Rising Phoenix Review on July 25, 2024 | Christmas Poem for Jodi Cold broke
Montgomery
from St Louis Bay
to Neese, the houses
froze like houses freeze,
bathroom floors,
a flower frost bit,
the whole country
and would-be country
split like a snow weighted
tree, so appropriate to
watch the whispering
yell of history, behind every
mansion a slave shack,
for every HOA 5 blocks of
tenements, for every
fireplace a kid without
a blanket. The cold
broke Mobile, Mobile broke
me. From ancient earthen
mounds on campus, so subtle to our
untrained eyes, to Asian
restaurants and fast food
lines, from bored police on
Christmas Eve to sharecropper
economics 2023, wrap
me in your limbs, be my
defiant gasping fuck.
Put your stomach on my
stomach, your blood my
manger, your hips my child,
a ritual we could build to
warming on nights
of frozen blades
of grass, the smell of
wood, the nutrients of
ash. By Joshua Lew McDermott Biography: Joshua Lew McDermott is a poet, writer, sociologist, and activist originally from rural Idaho. He lives in Louisiana. His debut book of poetry, Codex, was published in 2019 by Hand to Mouth Books. | | | |
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