October 31, 2016 | Poetry
Clowns Weren't Creepy in 1921
Rolf Potts
But life was good for clowns back then
But life was good for clowns back then
I.
When I was a kid I believed
in good old-fashioned animistic
souls coming out of the grass
and the sky and the rocks.
I loved walking
in Las Rocas de Santo Domingo
and seeing