HONORABLE MENTION
Post Rehab Poem by Claire Scott
they taught us to pray mother jesus for strength to refuse
to our lord
the call of meth of vodka of vicodin to call our sponsor eat three meals a day fresh berries mother & broccoli run a mile each morning they say keep a gratitude journal pages filled with purple ink mother mine is empty midnight visitors to keep money coming to keep me in needles mother & crystal meth mother I can’t wait any speed no longer rehab has ruined I pour another glass, fill a syringe drinking darkness as jesus dances on the cross
Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has been accepted by the Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Enizagam and Healing Muse among others. Claire is the author of Waiting to be Called and Until I Couldn’t. She is the co-author of Unfolding in Light: A Sisters’ Journey in Photography and Poetry.
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