Sam’s Teeth - Patrick Culliton

 

Sam’s Teeth - Patrick Culliton front cover

Poems
Paperback, 104 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9906612-7-6
2017

 

 

 

 

from "Hornet Homily"

 

I signed the treaty with fish hooks,
sided with the risen knuckle, hung
a bouquet of raccoon skulls over the door,
made a rattle out of Uncle Sam’s teeth

and an aspirin bottle. Of his mistresses,
I am most fair. I coat his bass drum
with Vaseline and ash. I name the stars
on his neck after yet-to-be-declared battles.