School Supplies For Erasing Guys
Erase disgrace, rubber ice cream cone, pink
heart coupled names reduced to one alone.
Initials stickered, disappearing ink,
latest deceiver gone while you blinked. Grown
up addiction, school supplies, decorates
another, crushes, guys — sometimes females
(though never had to cut them out, mutate
a memory with scissors, pout, details
you cannot bear to see again.) Their heads
dissected, scalloped edge, from photographs
of those who’d leave you on a ledge, you wed,
divorced in diaries, colored pencil wrath.
Schoolgirlish ceremonies, grieving guys,
require scented markers, new school supplies.
Kristin Garth is a Pushcart, Best of the Net and Rhysling nominated sonnet stalker and author of eight books of poetry including Shakespeare for Sociopaths, The Legend of the Were Mer, Pink Plastic House, A Victorian Dollhousing Ceremony and Pensacola Girls. Her sonnets have stalked pages of magazines like Glass, Yes, Luna Luna, ISACOUSTIC*, TERSE. Journal and many more. Visit her website kristingarth.com and her tweets at @lolaandjolie