What Rough Beast | Poem for September 27, 2019

Chad Parenteau
Nancy Pelosi Jesus Tanka

Standing by Hope’s tomb,
Nancy Pelosi Jesus
proclaimed hope come out.
But this was three days ago
and months after hope had died.

Chad Parenteau is the author of Patron Emeritus (FootHills Publishing, 2013). His work has appeared in Tell-Tale InklingsQueen Mob’s Tea HouseThe Skinny Poetry JournalIbbetson Street, and Wilderness House Literary Review. He serves as associate editor of Oddball Magazine. His second full-length collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, is forthcoming.

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