wore nylon nightgowns
all day
varicose veins as violent and demented
as a storm coming in
Macro Flowers
worth of her life
she always held a drink
ice cubes swirling
as she sucked down
our ignorance
of what a body
could become
crude as an oil spill
she told us to suck it up
and stop
whining
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The Poet: Meg Tuite's writing has appeared in numerous journals including MadHatter’s Review, Epiphany, The Smoking Poet, JMWW, One, the Journal, Monkeybicycle and Boston Literary Magazine. She has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of Domestic Apparition (2011) San Francisco Bay Press, Disparate Pathos (2012) Monkey Puzzle Press, Reverberations (2012) Deadly Chaps Press, Bound by Blue and other stories (2013) Sententia Books. Her blog: http://megtuite.com.
The Artist: Faun Scurlock
