{"id":14853,"date":"2023-10-20T05:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T10:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=14853"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:39:16","slug":"jesus-lost-his-milk-teeth-he-looked-so-much-like-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2023\/10\/20\/jesus-lost-his-milk-teeth-he-looked-so-much-like-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"jesus lost his milk teeth &amp; he looked so much like his father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-social-links-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61556140010887\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" 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Okoro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\"><strong>jesus lost his milk teeth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">all at once. he placed them,\nstill warm, pulp still clinging to crown,\ninto his mother\u2019s hand.\nshe bent over him, her palm flattened with expectation.\nthese will make a great gift for your father, mary said.\njesus thought of joseph,\nhis body curled over a plank of cedar that would soon\nbecome a table in mary\u2019s kitchen.\nbut my father works with wood not bone, jesus said.\nhis question hung in the air before\nmeeting mary\u2019s faraway smile.\nshe always seemed to be looking at something\nright behind him and terrified of what she saw.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>__________<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:25px\"><strong>he looked so much like his father<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">mary knelt over one of the holes at the foot of the cedar tree \nin her relative\u2019s land.\nher fingers trembled. her breath hitched. \nher garments were soaked with mud.\nshe only ever dug shallow enough to bury his smaller \nmiracles: a baby\nbird,       <em>it flew with wooden wings,\n     its body was stiff and speckled with gold<\/em>\n\nor a miscarriage,             <em>the month-old clot had slipped down her leg \n                     on her son\u2019s third birthday, red and pulpy and human<\/em>\n\nor a child\u2019s incisors                <em>please, is this enough for you \n                         yet, she begged<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>__________<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Quinton Okoro<\/strong> is a Black, nonbinary poet from North Carolina, with a BA in Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill. They are a 2023 Tin House Summer Scholar, winner of the 2023 Anne Williams Burrus Prize in Poetry sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, and semi-finalist for the 2023 Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry from <em>Nimrod International Journal<\/em>. Their poetry is featured or forthcoming in <em>Sh\u014d Poetry Journal, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/Poets.org\"><em>Poets.org<\/em><\/a><em>, Nimrod International Journal, Driftwood Press, and Allium: A Journal of Poetry &amp; Prose,<\/em> among others. 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