Memoir Poetry

Most people would argue that poetry is about writing what’s inside you.  Sometimes, though, it’s about writing what you would like to be inside you.

It’s good she

 

said It’s

good to

 

Look

from pen to

paper pad to

coffee cup -black

filled- to black

and white cat on

her lap

 

Smell the thrum

            cadence

            of rotted Cyprus

and green alli-

 

gators

 

in the soft

bloop pup

bubbles

of the living

mud

 

What more

 

could a woman need

she thought