Soup Kitchen Poet

Hoochie Sobers Up Long Enough To Read His Poems at the Soup Kitchen Julie Buffaloe-Yoder He’s an ornery devil, hard scaly and covered with brown liver spots. There are bits of sticks curling up like horns in his slick white hair. . He shuffles to the podium in a faded plaid red coat, takes the [...]

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Long Live The Pee Boy

Do you know what a Pee Boy is?  They’re all over the world and have been for a long time.  Well, I don’t know if Pee Boy is the technical name or not. The Pee Boy that’s familiar to me is a handmade, wooden “cut out” picture of a little boy taking a pee.  A [...]

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Price Reduced Again

Pre-orders are now being taken for my chapbook, Price Reduced Again.  Don’t worry, y’all.  I won’t chase you around the internet and demand a purchase.  I’m just trying to be better about spreading the word.  So here she goes. . Price Reduced Again is the first release from Backpack Press.  Crystal Folz, who has created [...]

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Millie’s Egg

Millie’s Egg Julie Buffaloe-Yoder They glued a yellow ribbon to a plastic pink egg and hung it on Millie’s door as a beacon, so she won’t get lost in long, white mazes of sameness. . Still, Millie floats down the halls in her dirty blue slippers. She sneaks up behind nurses. She bothers the visitors. [...]

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