How To Talk To Your Schizophrenic Child<\/p>\n
Would you like to swing on a star?<\/em> Point to the Big Dipper Of course you are Jesus So Intervention is just a jigsaw In reality <\/p>\n “How To Talk To Your Schizophrenic Child” appears in the latest issue of Crab Creek Review.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Patty Kinney<\/a> has been published in The Sun, hipMama, Poetry Motel, Mamaphonic, Poets On The Coast –\u00a0<\/em>as well other journals and anthologies\u00a0online and in print. \u00a0She is a recent graduate<\/a> of the Artist Trust Edge Program for Writers<\/a> and is\u00a0very active in the Olympia Poetry Community. She regularly reads at the Olympia Poetry Network’s<\/a> monthly readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How To Talk To Your Schizophrenic Child Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar? – Burl Ives Point to the Big Dipper Ask them which star they are? Explain therapists cannot function without … Continue reading
\n Carry moonbeams home in a jar?<\/em>
\n – Burl Ives<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAsk them which star they are?
\nExplain therapists cannot function
\nwithout their wisdom, expertise
\nRepeat the term Ordinary Genius
\nsewing it into eyelids
\nagree it\u2019s okay to Google
\nyour silhouette,
\nshoplift a shovel,
\nduct tape thrift store shoes you use
\nto walk on water<\/p>\n
\nheart on fire
\nlit by the tip of a match
\nand those traffic cameras
\nare watching, making movies
\nrenaming you through
\nevery intersection sending
\nCliffsNotes to the CIA<\/p>\n
\nfly your flag
\nthat middle finger
\nat those aliens who abducted
\nyou last night
\nbut next time they come
\ntell them to rinse
\nthe chili from the pan.<\/p>\n
\ndismantled before we find
\nthe last piece<\/p>\n
\nyou\u2019re a wives\u2019 tale
\nin high def
\nfreight train
\nwaiting to be jumped
\ncarrying toxic waste, nerve gas, the sting of
\nsalt in a new tattoo of
\nyou and you and you.<\/p>\n