It was a dream. In it, I wandered the halls of my old high school a last time, willing myself to find reason not to leave, Hey, you still need to sign my yearbook! Do you have summer plans this year, Ms. Ringrose? The future is a promise of only disappointment, fear. I’ll do anything to stay. With every tick of the clock hanging over the exit, I pang for […]
Lauren Hudgins | Barefoot in the roses
In my humblest objections to dead and perfect poses, I stand here naked and barefoot in the roses. In the course of clever actions, I stumble to what’s mine: a quick thrust in your direction to see me as divine. I have no real contemplations. My mind to you exposes I stand here bloodied and barefoot in the roses. I’m on knee to your extractions. You have […]
Cathy Bryant | The Majorette
(The tarot card The World) I have been taught to twirl my two batons and march in step, as a majorette, and I was as proud as a lion when I got my first uniform. Soon conformity and my growing body made me feel restricted, pedestrian, ox-like, feet aching from pounding the hard roads, on parade. I longed to tear off my tight bodice, spread my wings and […]
Nancy Wakeman | Annunciation
Imagine Mary, a glib girl full of wistfulness, stumbling along a red dust road in the heat of summer, basket loaded with impossible tasks, thoughts miles away from her feet. Joe says she is fine, his foxy lady, his melancholy baby. Mary wants more than life as a wife, sweeping up sawdust, tweezing splinters from scabby fingers. She wants to be wooed, to be lifted aloft with the power of […]
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