Candy-Colored
Clown
by Daniel
G.
Snethen
The crushed blue velvet derby
perched perilously
upon the cotton-candy-pink hair
of the candy-colored clown.
His baggy suit, white
with pink pinstripes, accentuated
by the carnation and off-white
colored striping of his walking cane.
It was a spectacle to be seen—
genderless and perpetually smiling
a death grimace reflecting
from your mirroring eyes
deep into his cosmic eyes
before consuming your
spiritual essence
and licking
your bloodied spine.
Daniel G.
Snethen is an educator, naturalist, moviemaker, poet, and short story
writer from South Dakota. He teaches on the Pine Ridge Reservation at Little
Wound High School in the heart of Indian Country.
