Amy Wright's second poetry collection, Cracker Sonnets, was published by Brick Road Poetry Press. She likens the characters featured to Holy Mackerels.

Jax Ovie Blows Perfect Smoke Rings in Farnham’s Musty Playhouse

 

 

Morning throttles Jax’s motor,

lowers her frost skirt for him,

if someone else’s bride.  Let Lambs

work their way up class ladders

with Starter hats and Nikes, he

thinks when Colleen clicks past

ignoring catcalls, heels snapping concrete,

a jar of maraschino cherries jiggling, ready

to be tossed into her Alka-Seltzer

before she drops wasp-waisted onto the

stage apron, owing nothing to no man

and off all day tomorrow.