Fixin’ The Blues
Cynthia Wilson (Goddard College, US)
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Sun goin’ down
a pink skinned peach
turns gravel
to mother-of-pearl.
Sittin’ on the porch hot
jazz beatin’ with the
rhythm of the fan,
ginger snaps warm
from the oven on
a cracked china plate
with a ten year old
tawny port, brown
and sweet like the mama
who raised you
to appreciate the fine ways
the blues come to visit.
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Cynthia Wilson is currently an MFA student in creative writing at Goddard College. Her poetry has appeared in Hyperbole Magazine, The Taj Mahal Review, The Pitkin Review, The Aquila Review, and small house publications. Her flash fiction has appeared in Heavy Glow Fine Flash Fiction. She is working on an anthology of her poetry and an anthology of short stories.
