Monday, May 17, 2021

New Poetry by Jeremy Nathan Marks










Bobbie 

In the long hot 
summer of 
67’
when people 
could have been 

obsessed with the view 
from Detroit or a Newark 
street when they could have followed 
troop movements in the Central Highlands 
of Vietnam toward a place called 

Khe Sanh

a female singer 
from rural Mississippi
Bobbie Gentry sang about 

a boy a bridge and a girl 

who lost 
her appetite
when her parents seemed 
more interested in black eyed 
peas and peach cobbler 

than a boy’s cadaver bobbing 
like tackle in the Tallahatchie 
River.

In this land of plenty 
why is it that people 
are always hungry-


- © Jeremy Nathan Marks 2021


Jeremy Nathan Marks lives in Canada. Recent work is found in places like 365 Tomorrows, Jewish Literary Journal, Chiron Review, Dissident Voice, and Bewildering Stories. 


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