Things Buried in the Georgia Red Clay
ground beetles
tree roots
quartz
cicada shells
eviction notices
Black-eyed Susans
lost marbles
army men
that girl on all those missing posters
arrowheads
pottery shards
deer bones
railroad spikes
bottle caps off beer bottles
three generations of cigarette butts
septic tanks
the reason Aunt Linda doesn’t speak to her sister
shotgun shells
my father
Kaycee Painter is a disabled poet from Dalton, Georgia, and is the web editor for Mouthful of Salt. She writes from the body, exploring what it means to endure in a world not built for you. Her work has appeared in TrashLight Press, The Atlanta Review, and The Nonbinary Review.
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