Alison Stone
Newton Invented Calculus
Locked down for a year, I've gotten older.
I didn't learn a language or get fit,
heal my inner kid or find someone to hold her.
If I were charged with wasting time, who would acquit?
I didn't learn a language or get fit.
My lawn's a motley quilt of brown and lime.
If I were charged with wasting time, who would acquit?
To plod when you could dance should be a crime.
My lawn's a motley quilt of brown and lime.
My psyche suits my gray-streaked, damaged hair.
To plod when you could dance should be a crime.
I should have bought a boat, had an affair.
My psyche suites my gray-streaked, damaged hair.
Inner kid unhealed, no one to hold her.
I should have bought a boat, had an affair.
Locked down for a year, I've gotten older.
Bio
Alison Stone (she/her) has published seven full-length collections,
Zombies at the Disco (Jacar Press, 2020), Caught in the Myth (NYQ
Books, 2019), Dazzle (Jacar Press, 2017), Masterplan, a book of
collaborative poems with Eric Greinke (Presa Press, 2018), Ordinary
Magic, (NYQ Books, 2016), Dangerous Enough (Presa Press 2014),
and They Sing at Midnight, which won the 2003 Many Mountains
Moving Poetry Award; as well as three chapbooks. Her poems have
appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street,
Poet Lore, and many other journals and anthologies. She has been
awarded Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly's
Madeline Sadin Award. She was Writer in Residence at LitSpace St.
Pete. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot. A
licensed psychotherapist, she has private practices in NYC and
Nyack.
www.stonepoetry.org
www.stonetarot.com.
YouTube - Alison Stone Poetry.