Alison Stone
Chores
The moon raises her blade
above another day of cleaning and regret.
Great works of art un-begun.
Important conversations lost
to logistics. Tired and wired,
we scurry, stopping for arguments
and protein bars, imagining
a slower, more peaceful age
that may never have existed,
or if it did, was only for the rich,
who visited each other and drank tea,
played games, or walked the grounds while servants
pounded fancy gowns clean, polished
the silver, dusted the manor, and then fell
into dream-ravaged sleep.
Bio
Alison Stone 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.