Chad Parenteau
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Jane Roe Jesus Tanka
Jane Roe Jesus asks
is it even possible
for any woman
to enter either kingdom
without their thirty silver?
Cheese Cloth Mask Jesus Tanka
Cheese Cloth Mask Jesus
says it’s just a placebo.
No cloth mask out there
can stop a hammering nail,
so why wear any at all?
—Submitted on 05/21/2020
Chad Parenteau is the author of Patron Emeritus (FootHills Publishing, 2013). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tell-Tale Inklings, Queen Mob’s Tea House, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Ibbetson Street, Molecule, and Résonance. He serves as associate editor of Oddball Magazine and hosts the venerable Stone Soup Poetry series in Boston. His second full-length collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, is forthcoming.
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