Headless John the Baptist HitchhikingThe coming of age chronicle of a queer Latinx Southerner. In C. T. Salazars striking debut poetry collection, the speaker is situated in the tradition of Southern literature but reimagines its terrain with an eye on the Souths historic and ongoing violence. His restless relationship with religion (a child told me there was a god and because he was smiling, I believed him) eventually includes a reclamation of the language of belief in the name of