Alison Stone
Snowflake
You judge me fragile, weak,
too humorless or slow
to get the joke 'cause I turn up my kale-
adoring, east coast nose
at your meme about the diplomat, fake
teeth, fat showgirls, and a snake.
I restrain myself, for blood's sake
don't mock your spelling hoes like lawn-
care tools. Maybe I do crave a "safe
space," somewhere light bouncing off snow
or women's tears jolts everyone awake.
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.