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dancing girl press, 2013
$7.00 Jennifer Lobaugh is a recent graduate of the University of Oklahoma. Fluent in French, Russian, and Sarcasm, she currently lives with her kid brother Nathan and her shamefully spoiled dog Toby. Her poems have been published in Gutter Eloquence Magazine, Phantom Kangaroo, and other journals. Prairie Song gather your alibis there with the hollyhocks tuck them gently in the crook of your arm untangle yourself from the sheets of another young witness to your thoughtless slip of the tongue serenade me with the psalms of the prairielands paint me concession in tones of the dawn harbor my bones in the chill of compunction expose to me secrets kept under the skin then meet me in April when rain falls like fireflies find me where pools of dark water collect extinguish the force of my tornadic diction come heavy with granite, come make me forget and cover my body in green lamentations the sweet consolation that comes from the sun I’ll tether my heart to the thrill of your egress I’ll marry my soul to the sound of your gun |