Nicole Taylor- Three Poems

A Dancing Dream

Janet smiles and lumbers forward.

Cheryl downstairs usually walks steps

forth, body straight, and stomps

loudly.

Janet leans right, left. We follow 

simultaneously. Arms and feet stay,

remain forward. Drum beats fill

the dance room.

Cheryl sometimes listens to loud music

or radio sermons.

Her front apartment door shuts loudly. I 

awake ignoring neighbor’s loud music

and footsteps.

Footsteps and Janet’s wheelchair

were in my dance dream.

Later I was weeding, cutting, sweeping,

I was dancing outside with rake and broom.

In Stride

in stride,

in hop.

He usually takes it 

all in stride.

He is wanting a home in California,

friends,

         a girlfriend.

He usually takes it in stride

that I have not accepted to be his girlfriend yet,

after making out again New Year's Eve.

Gothic Black

Black is her short bob

  with brown roots.

Black is her leather choke collar

   with silver rings.

Black is her short sweatshirt 

   with gray lining and stitching.

Black is zippered cargo pants 

  with zippered pullouts.

Black is her small shoes

   with black suede and laces.

Nicole currently has no MFA's, many hopeful projects, a variety of styles and a wide variety of subjects. She is an artist, a hiker, a poetry note taker, a sketcher, a volunteer, and a dancer, formerly in DanceAbility. She has been accepted at 4 and 20 Journal - online nature poetry, Camel Saloon, Denali Literary Journal, Gloom Cupboard, Hyperlexia Journal - nature and camping, Just Another Art Movement - New Zealand, KenAgain, Miller's Pond, Monkey Bicycle, Neglected Ratio - two surrealistic poems, Outlaw Poetry, Pemmican Journal, Phantom Kangaroo, Portland Alliance, Queen Bee Collective - online nature journal from Eugene, Red Fez - Canada, Snow Monkey, Symmetry Pebbles,Tiger's Eye, Wordgathering, and many other publications. She blogs at apoetessanthology.blogspot.com/, facebook.com/Pushk1n and at 

http://www.oregonpoeticvoices.org/poet/312/, a collection of Oregon poets with written and audio poetry available online through Lewis & Clark College in Portland. 

And many more in waiting, to Eugene and Oregon journals and  many online publications, journals.

"A Dancing Dream" was published in Creative Space Journal, May 2009
"In Stride" was published in Red Fez
"Gothic Black" was published in PigeonBike, February 2011