Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco: Poems Style:Paperback To survive their intertwined small

To survive their intertwined small town lives

others have called it a tragedy

It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time

Put lived to please Ma and make her proud

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco: Poems Style:Paperback To survive their intertwined smallBy K. Iver Short Film Starring My Beloveds Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, is an aching tribute to the power and precarity of queer love. In small town Mississippi, before the aughts, a child assigned woman and a boy forced to call himself a girl love one anotherfrom afar, behind closed doors, in motels. The child survives an injurious mother and the beast shaped men she brings home; the boy becomes a