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Our Lady of Mustang
Curiosity drove me here
wondering who would be
worshipping at this temple
on the Lord’s day.
Church lot is full
here at the shrine.
Ranch girls are busy
plying love’s trade
with Sunday morning horn dogs.
I sit parked and scribbling
in the lot between heaven’s gate
and the souvenir shack
which is painted pink
as the sea of flesh
that undulates inside.
Outside, wild mustangs roam.
Inside, wild fillies buck Bronco Billies.
Back at home
mom’s set up
Sunday School.
Here, ten minutes drive east
of all that praying
other prayers are voiced,
“Oh God,
Yes! YES!”
Amen.
Henry "Hank" Sosnowski Henry "Hank" Sosnowski, South Chicago born Polish-American followed his gypsy
heart across America from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to North Carolina's shore. Following Brecht's edict that
an artist must "First feed the face, then talk right and wrong," Sosnowski worked as a newsboy, caddy, fry
cook, steel worker, blues musician, pipefitter, pool hustler/card shark, landscaper, railroad brakeman,
auto part salesman, actor, warehouse manager, woman's clothing rep, waiter, missionary, writer,
Alaskan game warden, book store manager, morning DJ, corporate VP, marketing director, dishwasher,
factory worker, car salesman, handyman, customer service rep, janitor, teacher, hot rod show promoter,
Internationally published poet.
Sosnowski currently lives and teaches in Reno, Nevada, inspiration for his one-man traveling show:
"Write Before Your Eyes! Hank the Revelator - Live on Stage 24/7!" For one week, Sosnowski
comes to town to write/perform/live on an outdoor stage replica of a 1930s writer's; garret,
melding written, spoken and performance art.
Sosnowski is the winner of the 2006 Sierra Arts Foundation Writer's Grant and voted
back to back Reno's best poet by Reno News and Review.
Email: Henry "Hank" Sosnowski
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