henry 7. reneau, jr.
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Patti Smith

You a wonder / every inch the glam gothic crow / You a granted
clear explosive magic of empathic intelligence / the dauntless
[w]reckoning of your weight / like a quantum singularity of Furies
wreathed in the eccentricities of genius / You an unfettered energy /
ever ready to make a big noise / You got a geography of your own
/ strangely magical & [w]reckless / The fearful / galvanized by
your songs / re-inscribes people and your experiences into the world /
You a brazen indecency of sound / three chords merged with
the power of the Word / The crowd knows every word / the throb &
burn of aperture & rift / of raped over centuries / into existence / You
a city of Women who roar / when the wolves come out to play / The gun-
metal disdain of despots & hoarders of gain / of gatekeepers & too
many dicks / Their altar / a pedestaled cage / the sacred chalice full of
rotten Christian teeth / You are rain-pearled / Sun-filled / a condensation
of cloud pulled downward by gravity / spiraling to the center
of something spinning denser than / larger than / older than a fetish
of radiant tragedies dressed in collateral adjectives / You the melting away
of arrogance / a corner of sunlight on the bed sheet erasing a violence /
that many is the person / who never had the courage to do something
/ say something / be / something / the milli-second gap in time /
it takes the fire to follow the fuse / from the detonator / to kaboom!!

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henry 7. reneau, jr. writes words of conflagration to awaken the world ablaze, an inferno of free verse illuminated by his affinity for disobedience & a barbwire conviction that prequels the spontaneous combustion that blazes from his heart, phoenix-fluxed red & gold, like a discharged bullet that commits a felony every day, exploding through change is gonna come to implement the fire next time. He is the author of the poetry collection, freedomland blues (Transcendent Zero Press) and the e-chapbook, physiography of the fittest (Kind of a Hurricane Press.) His work is published in Superstition Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Zone 3; Poets Reading the News and Rigorous. His work has also been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
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