Prince of the Underground

somewhere
in the biofield 

farmhands 
announce you

buttery blonde
and sweet 

McIntosh
apple blush

they gather 
around your crib 

of turf 
and hail you

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.

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