for In Your Own Words, a poem by Dave Malone: ‘Spring Dress’

In Your Own Words begins September 5

Over at Poetry for Life on Substack we’re reading and journaling and writing from a few of Dave Malone’s poems, in preparation for In Your Own Words, a three-week mini-course I’ll be teaching in September on Malone’s collection Tornado Drill.

Here’s my clothing poem, inspired by Malone’s “Spring Dress.”

Nocona

Those boots — brown leather
hand-tooled. They raise you
even higher
so I have to raise my eyes

higher, still

to meet blue

– Megan Willome