The local florist's sign
says: If your name is
Chad Parenteau, enter
not for early birthday rose,
but for unbagged clump
of same processed shit
our flowers grow in
to remind you every
photogenesis--the birth
of everything made
photogenic--was built
in the entrails of the ugly
ones, and you're too far
down in the ground
to ever see the results,
face under sensible shoes.
Chad Parenteau hosts Boston’s long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, The New Verse News, dadakuku, Nixes Mate Review and The Ugly Monster. He has also been published in anthologies such as French Connections, Sounds of Wind, Reimagine America, and The Vagabond Lunar Collection. His newest collections are All's Well Isn't You and Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine and co-organizer of the annual Boston Poetry Marathon. He lives and works in Boston.
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