somewhere
in the biofield
farmhands
announce you
buttery blonde
and sweet Mcintosh
apple blush
they gather around
your crib of turf
and hail you
the prince of
the underground
they revered you
the well-rounded one
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
See all his poems on Tea House here.
