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      May 27, 2019Strong Feather Buries the White WomanJennifer Reeser

      As I unload each shifting, fertile clod
      upon her pale remains, their thudding sound
      brings to mind the pounding of that sod
      upon my mother’s final resting ground.
      Mother Earth, obliging, falls apart
      for me. I see, instead of her I bested,
      that sweet, blonde thief who cut my mother’s heart,
      the one whom—all my life—I have detested.
      What were the odds, that I could shoot ahead
      of her, this daughter of the Nordic gods?
      This educated harlot once struck dread
      within me—puzzlingly. What were the odds?
      If I can leave the thrill of her foul mouth
      filled with my Mother’s milk, I’ll migrate south …

      from #63 - Spring 2019

      Jennifer Reeser

      “I write a considerable amount of poetry in ‘assumed’ voices. Strong Feather is an American Indian character of my own creation, the center of a collection recently completed, by the same name. I have written these in order to create a new kind of poetry, which gives voice to a long-overlooked—and under-represented—point of view, in a style which has not heretofore existed in literature.”

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