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Glinda the Good Witch Tries Travel Via Tornado

Reviews it online,
three and a half stars,
since the ride is startlingly smooth,
the bed, springy yet unbowed.
The landing is not quite
as conveniently located
as advertised.

She preferred the wheels
of bicycles spinning in sync,
a basket of yipping synchronicity
to rooms where unstoried
knick-knacks jostled and rattled on
their way to a new land, always nearly
falling off the shelf at her favorite

London B and B where daily
an upright piano rolled past, marking
the hour of six. Remarkable, really,
how every family is remothered
by a great wind.

 

Sarah Ann Winn’s poems, flash fiction, and hybrid works have appeared or will appear soon in Calyx, Five Points, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Massachusetts Review, and Passages North, among others. She is the author of two forthcoming chapbooks, Field Guide to Alma Avenue and Frew Drive (Essay Press, 2016) and Haunting the Last House on Holland Island (Porkbelly Press, 2016), as well as Portage (Sundress Publications, 2015). Visit her at http://bluebirdwords.com or follow her @blueaisling.

 

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