from VIRGINIA
To sit here with you and put into words
How much was kept in the dark I was being
kept in the dark I have a lot of bad feelings
about it now but young it’s just
what you have I know that she grew up
Williams and then she went to nursing school
and all these pictures of miss Druid City
home coming queen in her cape and roses
I’m looking at these pictures just going
you know who on earth is that
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Memory not her own flashes. There was
never any own memory, you can’t steal
that but you can. Who, I’m sorry who I’m
talking to, you. She doesn’t have the full
visual but I can tell you stories sorry fle
shes. Can you come down the drain and
out again. Can you come out again. She
can’t own this, she’ll still it. It’s already
in the book. And love goes up the ladder
Bradley Willow Trumpfheller is an American writer and artist. Their poetry and criticism has appeared in Poetry, The Baffler, Poem-a-Day, Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Michener Center for Writers, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts. They live and work in Berkeley, California