MineTown

Jesse S. Mitchell



My great-grandmother was Cheyenne
Red speaker
My great-grandmother was Ashkenazy
Odessa farm breezes
My great-grandmother was Pembrokeshire
My grandfather was Mississippi mud
My grandmother was pots and pans
My father had boned-out rabbit in his blood.
I am
Coal-dust choked, whiskey pink stained, black

Lungs.