St. Joseph’s Sacred Heart

Let's workshop this poem concerning the unmarked graves of children starved and raped in Native-American boarding schools!

St. Joseph’s Sacred Heart 

The trouble with native kids
sneaking from boarding school 
to forage for nuts, berries,

was that the nuns, whose clits
they had to suck, grew secure 
in what only further fed

secret graves with new cohorts 
to be civilized: “Little beasts 
really can live on crumbs!”

*This poem is unpublished

Photo: riversideeddy.ca/the-history-of-residential-schools-should-never-be-forgotten/