Sweetwater promoting the metamorphosis of poetry and why it is lifeblood contingent upon nature, myth and animal reverie, and how Hollywood views a screenwriter who writes poetry to promote her films. Sage Sweetwater, Artist of the Greater World, revered by many marketing her lesbian western film Jett Durango trilogy: Jett Durango, Jett Durango: The Resurrection, Jett Durango: My Heroes Have Always Been Outlaws
Coyote Prophecy
howl intrepid winds
blow with all your might
she said tumbleweeds blew
the dusty coyote into town
her prophecy
lie under the potato bins
church bells ring in warning
of twenty thirteen blight
bushy tail
whiskers gray
pelt of red hue
she stood in her
christening gown
she fed the coyote
dead rat digests the
scandal
wagons approach
town reverend anchors
the pulpit nails boards on
on the church windows the
only thing moving is a cockroach
those sick with sores and cankers
red wine poured from anemic gourds
coyote barks
the town stills
prophecy is about
to leave its marks
pharmacy dispenses
cornucopias filled
to the brim with pills
plague cured lessons learned
wanted posters tacked on the mills
flour sifted weevils removed butter churned
preparing for a reckoning the coyote prophecy
curse of the damned the healer right where it lay
all the time evil turns back the clock; ouroboros
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