Melissa Tuckey's "Dick Cheney's New Heart Speaks"

Poem of the Week:    Melissa Tuckey                                    Dick Cheney's New Heart Speaks     A roadside bomb is planted in every chest I was a pea sized fist in the dirt of a man who had half your brains but he was good The heart does not relinquish its domain Your blood confesses to every crime Don't expect me to be patient with you Your DNA has struck a compromise with the purgatory of souls Your fingerprints engraved with names of the dead Have a seat Mr. Cheney while your skin reads its final testimony -Melissa Tuckey Used by permission. Melissa Tuckey is author of Tenuous Chapel, selected by Charles Simic for the ABZ Press first book prize (May 2013) and Rope As Witness (Pudding House Press, 2007). Her honors and awards include a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Winter Fellowship, and writing fellowships from DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Ohio Arts Council, as well as a residency at Blue Mountain Center.  Please feel free to forward Split This Rock Poem of the Weekwidely. We just ask you to include all of the information in this email, including this request. Thanks! If you are interested in reading past poems of the week, feel free to visit the blog archive.

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