Lois Marie Harrod
Anxiety
The body wants
to become
something else.
The wrists,
crawlways for mice.
The hands,
baskets of restless birds.
The stomach throws
its all-night party,
the neighbors
summon sirens,
there's someone
out there
in the pool floating
dark face down.
Bio
Lois Marie Harrod's 13th and 14th poetry collections, Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. The Only Is won the 2012 Tennessee Chapbook Contest (Poems & Plays), and Brief Term, a collection of poems about teachers and teaching was published by Black Buzzard Press, 2011. Cosmogony won the 2010 Hazel Lipa Chapbook (Iowa State). She is widely published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. She teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey. Read her work on www.loismarieharrod.org.