Wednesday, April 15, 2015

A Poem by Wanda Morrow Clevenger


flashback flash forward

laying there
awake
in the dark
makes it
ten times
worse

yanked from
dreamfree calm
bedhair peace
no cute kitten
platitude posters
newage
pharmaceuticals
Bobby Flay brunches

just the dark
flashbacks
flash forwards
me
and you



Wanda Morrow Clevenger lives in Hettick, IL -- population 200 give or take.  She has published over 300 pieces of work in 114 print and electronic publications over the past seven years.  Her debut book, This Same Small Town in Each of Us, published in 2011 (Edgar & Lenore's Publishing House).  She maintains a magazine-style blog of published work and book purchase link called "It's All Just Telling Tales Out of School:  http://wic-wlcblog.blogspot.com/.  A full length poetry manuscript is currently searching for a publisher.




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