Poems Niederngasse
Nicole Cartwright Denison  
Chromosomal
 
can’t let the family know about the errant proposal of genes
and grand manipulation of the helix
that produced this deviant, a lady, right proper,
all monograms and mannerly living a life that uses the good china,
polishes the silver
 
a life that, kneeling on all fours,
awaits the great seizure of good breeding,
the climax of introduction to the society she meets in bars,
slumping with the shoulder-wracked rage of earning,
milking the sex-filled lavatories,
whispering with smoke-addled voices
 
the fine degenerate pretends humility,
silently,
steadily,
weeviling the heart of a good reputation


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Nicole Cartwright Denison lives on a trout farm, writes poetry and prose, and teaches creative writing in the mountains of North Carolina. Her poems have appeared online in canwehaveourballback and 2River View and are influenced by regret, instability, vanity. She writes too little and thinks too much, enjoys gardening heirloom vegetables, and cries when she forgets. email: N.Cartwright Denison
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