A Poet Spreads the Love: Poetry in a Bubble Gum Machine
Stray Shot By Yvonne Zipter For Tourquouse Moore, 08/16/2000 As if the night could heal itself with its mercurochrome streetlights; as if the purity of numbers and her love for them would carry her through school; as if a whistling bullet were a happy sound; as if guns rang out a staccato lullaby that guided her to a cool sleep; as if the only pain she might feel was simple as a sister pinching her leg, wanting more space in the overcrowded bed; as if the quiet voices of momma and gran in the kitchen were a voodoo, she let her eyes close. Reprinted from the anthology Where We Live (2003)You can buy a poem for yourself at Josi’s Frozen Yogurt Cafe, 4032 N. Milwaukee Ave., or at Women and Children First Bookstore, 5233 N Clark St. The poetry machines will remain on site at these locations indefinitely.
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Nancy S Bishop
Nancy S. Bishop is publisher and Stages editor of Third Coast Review. She’s a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2014 Fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. You can read her personal writing on pop culture at nancybishopsjournal.com, and follow her on Twitter @nsbishop. She also writes about film, books, art, architecture and design.