Drew S. Cook
—
Our Time in the Wilderness
The realest fears
solar panels
women in motorcars
inductive reasoning
justice
birthed
a lifetime
in red dirt
in brown dirt
hitching up outside
the cowboy
church
Kafka for folks
who don’t read
Kafka
as if Texans
need to be tricked
into being Baptist
Goliath
what about
Gath-on-Gath
crime what
about Chicago
what about
urban Gittites
three children new iPhone
Snap card
we’re burning up
like July
in Sugar Land
afraid
of our hometowns
that the check of our whiteness
will bounce o lord won’t you
knock a tall man down
Linen & Wool After Labor Day
Keep those gimps out
of the temple
get a tattoo
against tattoos
don’t let
a lady ovulate
you into hell
bake a white
lemon zest
cake
for
your rapist
shellac & impale
outside the bakery
a ward against
butter & garlic
over prawns
dredged
from the dead mouth
of the Mississippi
Drew S. Cook studies, teaches and eats shellfish at and around the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His current poetic project interrogates the mythological underpinnings of evangelical whiteness. His poems have appeared in Pleiades and Nimrod, and he is a Co-Executive Editor at Trio House Press.
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