1 Poem by Kristin Garth

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