LANGSTON HUGHES TRIBUTE ISSUE
Tammy Tillotson
SCARE CROW
tar and feathers
hanging by toes
Jim sings
of broken law
wing ajar
mocking a killdeer
he warns:
forego the row
where sunflowers grow
Caught!
under the tow
of freedom’s plow line.
Tammy Tillotson lives
in Chase City, VA with her husband and two small tireless boys. Her
poetry has recently appeared in Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute
in Verse and Sweetbay Review. Her poem “The Book
of POD” won Honorable Mention in the 2009 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry
Contest. She earned her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Hollins
University.
Published
in Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2011.