Mary Tyler Moore Wants to Name Nail Polish for OPI
written by: Alex Stolis
For her younger self, “Let’s Finish College”
with dreams of exotic locales, her byline
buzzed over wire services back home,
the mean girls green with wonder;
revenge, a sweet little bullet from a pretty
blue gun. “Nuns In The Sun” for lazy Sundays
with golden-skinned boys under the boardwalk.
“Purple Moons” for waning tides, stale
beer drying in the sand; climbing the trellis
back into her room after curfew.
“Rose-Colored Glasses At Sunset” for her later
years. What color is regret, what shade
of remorse dark enough to cover kohl
-black sorrow? What prayers are light
enough to be carried on snowbound white
winds straight to the ear of God?
Alex Stolis has had poems published in numerous journals. Two full length collections Pop. 1280, and John Berryman Died Here were released by Cyberwit and available on Amazon. His work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Piker’s Press, Ekphrastic Review, Louisiana Literature Review, Burningwood Literary Journal, and Star 82 Review. His chapbook, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower's Wife, was released by Louisiana Literature Press in 2024, RIP Winston Smith from Alien Buddha Press 2024, and The Hum of Geometry; The Music of Spheres, 2024 by Bottlecap Press. He lives in upstate New York with his partner, poet Catherine Arra.
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