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This is Bonus Cut Poetry, a series that features original poems by Bonus Cut staff, artists and YOU! In this series, our mission is to bring people together in poetry, share stories and display wonderful artistic pieces. If you would like to have your poems in the next Bonus Cut Poetry installment, just email us at bonuscut@gmail.com

This installment features guest-writer Janet Navarro.

“written in honor of poets and lyricists everywhere”

Poetry Genius
By: Janet Navarro

All hot and brash with your
cowboy hat cool
you write like a rock star
etching on monuments
erected with phrases
that emerge
out of the primal gully mud
you allow yourself to wallow in.

I think it’s the same slurry you
use like a spa mask to open
pores toward the sun
because
your
lines can transform
that stained armpit feel I get
sometimes from life —

You know –
that feeling of
linger from trying on
Goodwill blouses
with the bleached over traces
of someone else’s
anxiety?

— well, your stanzas
glean pearls
from those
closets and
turn traces of stale sweat
into moments
of full-mooned-happy-go-lucky
and memories of open-topped
Jeep rides
when Stairway to Heaven
riffs
carried us home.