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Dead-Beat Dads

A poem by Jill Hawkins

Little girl questions the family portrait

of Mary and baby Jesus

on a Christmas card trimmed in glittering gold.


She wants to know where the dad

of the tan baby is

and traces the golden disc above his head.


Her mother explains that God is his father

but lives far away.

She nods and smiles Jesus is just like me
.

Jill Hawkins is a poet at large. A recent graduate of The Red Earth MFA program at Oklahoma City University, she was born and raised in Oklahoma. Jill has publications in: (JAMA) The Journal the American Medical Association, Blacktop Passages, Southwestern American Literature, Ping.Girl.Ink., Poeming Pigeon, Mizna,, The Endeavor,. Dragon Poet Review, Red Earth Review, Lowestoft Chronicle and The Whiskey of our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent.
PicturePhoto courtesy of the author.
     

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  • Online Issue No. 10
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • Online Issue No.9
    • 2016 Fall Online
    • 2016 Sppring Online
    • 2017 Fall Online
    • 2017 Print Issue - Manifesto TOC
    • 2018 Fall Print Issue - Frankenstein TOC
    • 2018 FA Frankenstein Companion
    • 2018 Summer Online
    • 2018 Fall Folio - VOTE
    • 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
    • 2019 SPR Mental Health Companion >
      • Issue Intro
    • 2019 Fall Folio -- Moon Moon
    • 2019 Fall Folio
    • 2020 Summer Folio
    • 2020 Feb Folio
    • 2021 Feb Folio
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • 2022 Handley Awards
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Inscape Alumni Board