Pretty Thunder Poetry

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  • Shrimp Chowder

    1 medium sized onion chopped 2 garlic cloves minced 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 to 2 jalapeno chilies chopped fine or (1/8 to ½ teaspoon ground cayenne) 2 teaspoons dried oregano ½ teaspoon dried…

  • Where Lives the Elephant Tree

    (For My Youngest Husband, Rene- Massembo Lubaki, Congo) In places where you trespass People there will call you family And share their vegetables and starch staple With you No matter that it is of…

  • Ashton “Tall Ghost” Appeals to St. Barbara, St. Theresa

    A fist a heart a jeweled yam The black aubergine offering Here is my battle axe Your dreams run into hers mouth moving so fast Yet like an unusual water Loa you dredge through…

  • Bird Pepper Hot Sauce

    12 bird peppers or substitute Thai chilies (the hot ones) ½ teaspoon dry mustard 3 tablespoon soy sauce 3 tablespoon lime juice ¼ cup ketchup 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons brown sugar 1 cup…

  • Curried Lentil Soup

    1 tablespoon olive oil 1 ½ to 2 cups chopped sweet onion 1 ½ teaspoons ground cardamom 1 ½ teaspoon ground cumin 1 ½ teaspoon dry coriander 1 teaspoon dry mustard ¼ to ½…

  • Peanut Punch

    ½ to 2/3 cup peanut butter 3 cups cold whole milk or soymilk 1-teaspoon vanilla essence (extract) A dash of cinnamon A dash of nutmeg Honey to sweeten Place it all in a blender…

  • coyote’s ass

    grey dampness where your memorymalady slingthings deceives onlyyou but good are the trackers god are the trackers no medicine do they need for their ways compassion found on that road give given after that…

  • Bottle Tree

    Be there Shanty roads Charlotteville fetes on Saturdays Pink, blue, purple houses Dressed in pelou and black cake Bottle tree prayers And the sting of bird pepper In the Horse’s eye The mourning has…

  • Switchback (riding the long night)

    with might holy hold and grip her belly protecting like a life or contraband within shudder and tremble in the damp night twitch and shiver like the darkwet hide of the equine tight muscle…