I am VERY PROUD to announce that my poem ‘Plum Crazy’ was listed in the TOP 25 poems during the 2012 Poetic Aside’s April PAD Challenge! (Hundreds of poets and thousands of submissions!)

Plum Crazy

William Carlos Williams
was lucky.

He had a forgiving partner
who was able to imagine
the delicious, sweet
and so cold plums
and settle for flakes
that probably weren’t so
forgiving
and quickly limped
into a soggy mess.

And even though
his apology was so
cleverly written that it is still
read and reread
long after iceboxes
have turned into Frigidaire’s,

I would have smacked him
with a frozen leg of lamb.

Forgive me,
I am so cold.