Inspired by Philip Thibodeau’s “Playing the Farmer” (2011) Behold, Beverley Lewis and Cindy Woodsmall, your newest competition! The Roman pastoral poet Virgil is back from the dead to bring bounties of books about bonnet-wearing blondes on the bookshelves complete with lovely illegible cursive titles adorned with scenic Lancaster cornfields, without the shit-stained sides of Interstate highways, massive measles outbreaks, or gossiping obese English tourists. You only need to worry about the quaint quilt clubs and fresh-baked gooey gobs, the chiseled but chaste bodies of carpenters, gripping a hammer with their veins pulsing out of his wrists but always stopping to say, “Whoa not until Jesus gives me the ok by throwing a shiny metal trinket on our fingers, girl! I’m not that kind of guy.” Forget about the battered women, only think of the creamy cake batter.
Morgan Boyer is the author of The Serotonin Cradle (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and a graduate of Carlow University. Boyer has been featured in Kallisto Gaia Press, Thirty West Publishing House, Oyez Review, Pennsylvania English, and Voices from the Attic. Boyer is a neurodivergent bisexual woman who resides in Pittsburgh, PA.
