Bible Social: Estranged Wife, Arbuckles and Wanted Posters

estranged wife,
she liked her coffee
"plumb barefooted",
uncontaminated without sugar
or cream, fugitive husband done
stirred Wanted Posters, (spread his
loop over a neighbor's branded animal)
she liked her bible social at the Coffee Mill Church,
at the mouth of the Red Sea, coffee was
shipped from Mocha, later becoming
a trade name for Arabian coffee,

vintage Arbuckles
labels, Lewis and Clark
packed a fifty-pound bag,
the Witch, her being a Western
Indian became extravagantly
fond of black medicine.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist