we made ribs on a sunday.
just felt like the right thing to do.
cleaned out the pit, stacked
charcoal with the paper bag bits;
a fiery pyramid to
bless this food.
she came thru with the brats. also
had a taste for them hot links
farmer john. —ADD’EM!—
he prepared potato salad
a la BIG MOMS. he also found a can of beef chili,
HOT! added brown sugar + syrup + sauce BBQ & mustard
cause, we made ribs on a sunday.
this how we do things round here
Hailing from South Central, Los Angeles, Tauwan Patterson is a Black + Queer Poet and recent graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. His work has appeared in online literary magazines Cool Beans Lit, 3rd Wednesday Magazine, Muse-Pie Press’ Shot Glass Issue #41, the Rising Phoenix Review, The Amazine, University of Baltimore’s Welter Literary Journal, and JMWW, and will also appear in the forthcoming Moonstone Arts Center anthology Which Side Are You On?!, With his poetry Tauwan aims to, in the words of the great Poet and Thinker Marcus Jackson, announce his freedom and presence. Making a sound that echoes in the end that says Tauwan Patterson. No more. No less.
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