By Dana Kinsey
Fuchsia trees peek & perfume
at every window
confetti my classroom
satin petals whirl inside
float onto wooden desks
among hands holding Keats
shadows spilling into aisles
hummingbirds shower
open winged in chill rain
drinking nectar we made
sugar & water for melodies
Beethoven’s brooding joy
passes a collection plate
to gather missing romance
sold for cell phones
she texts all sad emojis
he tweets dark odes to Apples
they look for poets
lost in memes
Dana Kinsey is a writer, actor, and teacher with poetry published or forthcoming in Writers Resist, One Art, Broadkill Review, For Women Who Roar’s 2020 Anthology, Fledgling Rag, Greatest City Collective, Silver Needle Press, Porcupine Literary, and Sledgehammer Lit. Her prose appears in Teaching Theatre and Tweetspeak. Dana's play, WaterRise, was produced at the Gene Frankel Theatre in Greenwich Village for the Radioactive Women’s Festival. Visit wordsbyDK.com.
