They knocked on my door
7:23 in the morning
hungover from the obligatory
shots of fire
I signed before I read,
anxious to get them off
my front steps
onto the next customer
I glanced to the top
and saw the title:
“Rename Columbus, Ohio
‘Flavortown’”
We’re in the north
no flavor, just
salt and pepper occasionally
sprinkled on our breasts
No culture to steal from,
just buckeyes mashed into
every slogan
every song
The cooking network
blasts from my
boyfriend-for-the-night’s
television;
A strange man screaming
his voice the light
beaming from the house
too far to follow.
Cheyenne Hunt is a writer, coach, editor, and English teacher in Ohio. She holds degrees from Ohio Dominican University in the areas of English, Education, and Philosophy. Her work has appeared in Bone ‘n Ink Press and Gesture Magazine, where she won the Judith C. Mitchell Award for Creative Writing. She is inspired each day by the wonderful, the heartbroken, and the gut-wrenching. She tweets @cheyennekaylee_.