Self-Portrait as Boo Radley

Listen to Harrison Hamm read his poem:



When I was no longer welcome in church,
I was welcome to my solitude. To question religion

in a big empty house, haunted by bigger emptier
questions. Why, when I couldn’t parade my scars


around Dollar General or the only Sonic Drive-In
my family ever loved, I’d hit the Mennonite bakery
People on couch
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