All the Little Church Girls’ Paper Dolls
My latest book, All the Little Church Girls’ Paper Dolls, is now available as a free digital download from fifth wheel press, as part of their pride microchapook series. https://fifthwheelpress.com/pride-series
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The girl with the dirty blonde roots puking in
the small stall has #NoRegrets,
Conflict
Thinking about giving you the chance
to take my heart, break it apart,
crumple it like garlic—
magma
matches
to hide
or find?
Cycle Down
I’d never touched my grandmother’s forehead
on the day we found her passed out,
but I wanted to try.
Out the gate after “Woman in a Red Bodice and Her Child” (c. 1901) by Mary Cassatt
Beauty is in
the eye of the beholder.
They’ll tell you that whatever the object is
doesn’t matter.
But it means.
And you see it,
and you want it,
Hold
Pluck me
a true maroon—
Cirrus after “Child in a Straw Hat” (c. 1886) by Mary Cassatt
One too many thoughts
and now you’re tired,
sullen, disappointed
and, sigh, the drama of it all,
the suspense, the waiting
for some adult
Glass
Let me hold one finger up
to your immeasurable worth
and shatter it,
Alphabet Ravine 