"American Still Lives" - Diane Seuss

Still life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned

Dreamsicle

Still life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat 

grinder

Still life with whiskey wooden leg two potpies and a dead

parakeet

Still life with pork rinds pickled peppers and the Book of 

Revelation

Still life with feeding tube oxygen half-eaten raspberry Zinger

Still life with convenience store pecking order shotgun blast to 

the face.

From Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl: Poems.