Spring Cleaning - flipside B - Barbara LM Handley

Spring Cleaning

You locked your hands
over your belly
more fertile than plowed fields,
not knowing
the oyster was growing
pearls.

The man in the green suit
pulled
the knotted monkey from you,
and dropped it
in the trash.
Like used kleenex.

1988

Thoughts and Comments

Published under my maiden name: Barbara Muller

Calliope 1989
Published by the Students of the University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA
1989

I was a member of the editorial staff for this edition. My bio in the mag says "Barbara Muller finds that three years of college has greatly increased the amount of paper she must move from one pile to another. Things have disappeared into the piles, like the bedroom floor. She surfaces occasionally for class, and sometimes escapes with an actual piece of writing."

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