Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone, Bones

Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone
Bones
By Jeanette Cheezum

Her bones are not lovely anymore. She turned one hundred yesterday. Outlived two husbands, short and tall, saw two sons and a granddaughter fight foolish wars. Always big money made them die. Helpless pawns in this world of greed.

Built a company by herself, and gave back to the community with what was left. Gracefully she tried to take them under her wing only to be disheartened, when they robbed her blind.

She held her head to the heavens, embracing a power that gave her the grace to carry those bones through one hundred years.


Jeanette Cheezum's most recent poem to appear at vox poetica was Sisterhood of the Butterfly, published as part of Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae.


 

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