July 2020 Poetry Feature: Steven Leyva and Elizabeth Scanlon
STEVEN LEYVA
Get down to the smallest birthright / I cannot claim: say beignets / and doesn’t the stutter of hot oil start / to sizzle the small plates of memory? / Faces powdered with sugar, no thought /
to whose ancestors cut which cane, sing /
a hymn of “mmm, mmm, mmm.” /
Jackson square hangs its portraits...
Get down to the smallest birthright / I cannot claim: say beignets / and doesn’t the stutter of hot oil start / to sizzle the small plates of memory? / Faces powdered with sugar, no thought /
to whose ancestors cut which cane, sing /
a hymn of “mmm, mmm, mmm.” /
Jackson square hangs its portraits...
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