I used to find my dog’s hair in bird’s nests,
soft layer woven inside the twigs.
I release hair from my hairbrush out my bedroom window. (More …)
Alison Hicks is the author of Kiss, a full-length collection of poems (PS Books, 2011), a chapbook Falling Dreams (Finishing Line Press, 2006), and a novella, Love: A Story of Images (AWA Press, 2004). Her new collection of poems, You Who Took The Boat Out, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in March 2017. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in Broad River Review, Crack the Spine, Eclipse, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Gargoyle, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Louisville Review, Passager, Permafrost, Sanskrit, Whiskey Island, among other journals. Awards include the 2011 Philadelphia City Paper Poetry Prize and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships. She is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio, which offers community-based writing workshops.
I used to find my dog’s hair in bird’s nests,
soft layer woven inside the twigs.
I release hair from my hairbrush out my bedroom window. (More …)
The pads of the fingers on my left hand
are raw and numb at the same time.
I press my fingernails into their flesh. (More …)
I want to believe in a world beneath this one.
The bird that flies across the lawn
is a messenger, that if I follow her
in my mind, I will come to a door (More …)