“and as i tried to / close windows / in your head / i think i / instead / smashed them …”
Author: Emily Dickey
No Home Runs This Afternoon
“we laugh in our rummage sale kitchen / flat soda water mixed with room temperature despair / are we lost?”
Self Love
“sometimes / i / waste —my time; / viciously, / craving / seductive.”
The Walk Back and Two Wishes
“my big / toenail / was ripped (off) / but i don’t know that / yet.”
Foraging In Winter
“magic has come and gone … forgotten as a drunk flirt …”
Tap Lessons At Age 3
“let people (individuals, friends, lovers, guises of acquaintance) / wreak HAVOC / in your life”
Sometime Ago In The Afternoon
“you drink me in the mango light …”
Magic Changes
“… somehow, unlike all the movies
my hair didn’t curl and my clothes didn’t fit
and you never rearranged my heart.”
My Mom Deserved a Female President
“My mom taught me the word feminist without ever describing it’s meaning, letting me figure out what it meant.”