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Shannon Milum

Shannon Milum

Billy Jack

The room smelled like you

Jan 17, 2021

Jan 17, 2021

Shannon Milum

Clean Bones

Swallowing my own fatty swollen needs

Jul 5, 2018

Jul 5, 2018

Shannon Milum

Eight years later…

He killed a boy, then they put him in jail.

Mar 18, 2018

Mar 18, 2018

Shannon Milum

Blonde in a Black Car

In her, night becomes flesh &

Feb 14, 2018

Blonde in a Black Car

Feb 14, 2018

Shannon Milum

Snow

“Write me a poem about snow”, she says and I think of the second time we met. Outside a sushi restaurant in south Kansas City.

Dec 13, 2017

Snow

Dec 13, 2017

Shannon Milum

Merry Christmas…again.

“Merry Christmas”, she says, with emphasis on the Christmas part, through big blocky dentures. Staring over wire rimmed bifocals, she…

Dec 7, 2017

Merry Christmas…again.

Dec 7, 2017

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Happy Birthday, Matthew Shepard

The fall that I came out, Matthew Shepard was tied to a fencepost. He was beaten & bloodied & left to die. Three days later, I called my…

Dec 1, 2017

Happy Birthday, Matthew Shepard

Dec 1, 2017

Shannon Milum

Coins Rubbed Clean.

My girlfriend recently told me a story about how her dad always carried 2 half dollars in his pocket, one with the year she was born, one…

Oct 31, 2017

Oct 31, 2017

Shannon Milum

The White Moderate

I hope you’re choking on the coal runoff in your cool, trickling streams.

Oct 21, 2017

Oct 21, 2017

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1981 GMC Jimmy

They’ll probably read about dirty bare feet and scabbed knees and feel sorry for me, never knowing that we were full belly laugh happy…

Oct 6, 2017

1981 GMC Jimmy

Oct 6, 2017

Shannon Milum

Shannon Milum

Chef in Missouri by way of Kentucky. I write about Appalachia, things I know, & things I hate more than things I love.

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