3 FRAGMENTS
we’ll straighten not
but will stay a little
innocent and frolic
as we do
*
sweeter than
a plummy bit
three words
change you
*
queer
with
joy,
from hand
to hand
all in one
breath
every
little
joy
[Sourced from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott]
FLUID, ONCE
I(t) was liquid —
layers of stiff oxygen
easy to swim
through, to impose
tension.
I(t) was convertible —
a drowning delayed
by beads of defeat
on untraceable humid
disorder.
I(t) was theory —
femme-curious
bending unstable
water into tuned
victory.
M.A. Scott is a musician, collage artist, paralegal, and poet. Her work has recently appeared in the Nancy Drew Anthology published by Silver Birch Press and is forthcoming from Heron Tree’s In the Public Domain series. She lives in Westchester, NY.