Leticia Garcia Bradford- Three Poems

Unsuspecting Thoughts

The comfort of my brother-in-law's father's sweater,

June rain instead of April,

Eggs harden

Potatoes soften

Consumed by boiling water,

Bottleshock

Brown turns to gold

Give me beer instead of wine,

Sheltered in the Bistro

Where no one judges you,

If only life could be that way,

I broke up with my boyfriend again

                     Today

The Imperiousness of Life

You don't want to take in the mirror because the mirror is not real.

A reflection of things past

No future to behold

Sweet nothingness in my ear

Sprouts images in my head

What grand adventure we must partake

Spartans, Athenians lend me your fear

Of a great war relied upon

Join us in the honor of your souls

Lest we die one more day, again

The Lost Button

The conundrum

Fallen who knows where?

Thread unthreaded

           pulled

           dangled 

Unbeknownst gives way, breaks free

What will others think?

That I’m not put together?

The misfortune matters

Only when the breeze blows the coat carefree

        with wisps of wind catching a chill

Only when the blouse comes busting out or 

         the pants below the knees

Everything doesn’t need perfection

Practically perfect

Is perfect all the way

I’m okay

Standing proud 

                       with 

                             my 

                                  intimates 

                                               exposed

Leticia Garcia Bradford performs around the San Francisco East Bay at open mics and readings. She finds herself a poet, a playwright and a pharmacy techinician. She is the founder of the B Street Writers Collective in Hayward, CA.  Her published poems and stories can be found in In Your Ear, This Be The Town, Tri-City Voice, Stage of the Art and online at Synchronized Chaos. Check out her blogs: My New Adventure (stories of no place to call home) at leticiagarciabradford.blogspot.com and Leticia's Blog at lgbradford.blogspot.com (poems and other stories).