Category Archives: Free Verse

Mile Zero

5th
Oct. × ’09
By Melony Dott
AC/DC blasting we drive
a stolen car for the reservation
legal bottle rockets
but at every stop find
shops closed for Sunday's rest

Despite this we drive on
through the dry New Mexico
spring slumped in the wide back
seat while stunted evergreens sweep
back into the sand-colored
scenery until at MILE
0 we turn back

No one else notices
that green marker
among the weeds
nor would they care

One highway
opens; the other
disappears
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Allegory of the Wasp

25th
Sep. × ’09
By Melony Dott
Beyond the window shade, shadows
        shift, shapes bend

Sting, antennae, wing veins, twitching
        abdomen

I try to decide on which side
        the wasp crawls

Its silhouette slips as it flips
        through a hole

On the screen
    the wasp draws itself
        awkward lines
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