There’s Hazard In A Haphazard Literary Allusion

In 1984, she placed it in

his hand, a folded i love you note so he

might understand she was no Puritan

just camouflaged, Junior Anti-Sex League,

a survivalist sublimating need,

from hunters, terrified to bleed secrets

that some fifteen year old dark haired girl reads,

long skirt flirts with teen pervert, proximate,

unblinking eyes, English class, which surmise through

hemlines, hunched spine, a life not mine

dystopian heroine with curfew/

parents you hope folded paper undermines.

I’ll find a paper i love you on the floor —

touch, years, before I’ll know who it was for.

Kristin Garth is a Pushcart, Best of the Net & Rhysling nominated poet from Pensacola and a sonnet stalker.  Her sonnets have stalked magazines like Five: 2: One, Yes, Glass, Luna Luna, Occulum, Drunk Monkeys, and other places.  She is the author of eleven books of poetry including Pink Plastic House (Maverick Duck Press), Puritan U (Rhythm & Bones Press) and Candy Cigarette Womanchild Noir (The Hedgehog Poetry Press) and the forthcoming Flutter: Southern Gothic Fever Dream (TwistiT Press, 2020) and Dewy Decimals (Arkay Artists, 2020).  Follow her on Twitter:  (@lolaandjolie) and her website (kristingarth.com).