Dreaming a Poem by Robin Wright

chase the stain across

the paper with pen

a silk scarf around

your spaghetti strings

read from ghost encyclopedia

bleached words scraped

from the sky

carry on or stop

bribe or beat

scratch concrete

for a chord of clarity

best to the front

last long and prosper

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Robin Wright lives in Southern Indiana. Her work has appeared in Sledgehammer Lit, Ariel Chart, Spank the Carp, Muddy River Poetry Review, Rat’s Ass Review, Bombfire, Re-side zine, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her first chapbook, Ready or Not, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. @Robin_C_Wright