Alison Stone
Nest
Should I drink wine and celebrate or should I cry?
Her moods and needs for so long were my map.
My daughter's off to college. Who am I?
I can curse, have loud sex, take a nap.
Her moods and needs for so long were my map.
Bits of self sloughed off like outworn clothes.
Now I can curse, have loud sex, take a nap.
Will it cure missing her to thaw out dreams I froze?
Bits of self sloughed off like outworn clothes.
Resigned sighs as she packs my favorite shirts.
Will it cure missing her to thaw out dreams I froze?
Sure I've regained freedom, but it hurts.
Resigned sighs as she packs my favorite shirts.
My daughter's off to college. Who am I?
Sure I've regained freedom, but it hurts.
I'll drink wine and celebrate, after I cry.
Bio
Alison Stone is the author of nine full-length collections, Informed (NYQ Books, forthcoming), To See What Rises (CW Books, 2023), 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. https://alisonstone.info/ and TikTok – Alison Stone Poetry.