Wanda Morrow Clevenger is a Carlinville,
Illinois, native. She gets a pedicure every month to impress her
endocrinologist. He doesn't say so but nonetheless enjoys the
constantly changing colors.
thin walls
at the housing project
there were ways
to know your
next door neighbor
the furnace grate
on the bottom stair riser
the party line phone
a lazy loiter
on top a trashcan lid
between kitchen
screen doors
the walls were thin
there was that too
impaled
guilt is the playground
of the impalers
it flays the flock
for its rooted nature
it sires secrets
unconfessed
unforgiven—
sacrificial lambs
bled for
sport
watching waiting
once or twice
I snuck out
into the dark
streets where
good girls
catch trouble
if caught
searching
alley cat answers
crouched in a
grade school
fire escape
shadow
watching
waiting
finding
nothing
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