India, 1937
By late afternoon we had killed all the tigers,
lined them up, one by one, in the grassy field,
stood with one leg up on their orange/white bodies,
smiled toward the camera for the picture they would
be sending back home.
Jéanpaul Ferro is a 10-Time Pushcart Prize nominee from Scituate, Rhode Island. His poetry and short fiction has been featured on NPR and in Emerson Review, Columbia Review, Contemporary American Voices, Portland Monthly, Salzburg Review, Connecticut Review, and many others. He is the author of Essendo Morti – Being Dead (Goldfish Press, 2009), nominated for the 2010 Griffin Prize in Poetry and Jazz (Honest Publishing, 2011) nominated for 2012 Griffin Prize in Poetry, as well as the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry.
