Sonnet (29)
To drag one’s razed cesarean stories
it is fresh, it is not picked over
a family of unlikable women
i was just verifying what we
were having for lunch today
a crackling of meridian points
like watching a yellow duckie race
i wear their food all over my clothes
shopping for more lifestyle items
you can only play with squirt guns
in the backyard never the frontyard
i may be saying the same thing again
looks like it’s going to snow today
looks like it’s going to rain today
To drag one’s razed cesarean stories
it is fresh, it is not picked over
a family of unlikable women
i was just verifying what we
were having for lunch today
a crackling of meridian points
like watching a yellow duckie race
i wear their food all over my clothes
shopping for more lifestyle items
you can only play with squirt guns
in the backyard never the frontyard
i may be saying the same thing again
looks like it’s going to snow today
looks like it’s going to rain today
Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work recently has been featured in Storyscape Journal, Dusie, Quaint Magazine, Fanzine, Elective Affinities, & others. She is the author of the chapbook I Would Be the Happiest Bird (Horseless Press) and her first full-length book of poems, Houses, also from Horseless Press in 2015. Her graphic chapbook I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel is forthcoming from Bloof books. You can reach her at her website.
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