.              Glitter fish,
tarnished star wreath,
with your clasp gone
how will you fasten
to my black cashmere,
tight across the chest
unbuttoned to . . . yes
.              oh yes
he said at the Blue Sky
Drive-In, clinched
against the red leather
of his Corvair convertible.
.              How to sparkle now
with your rhinestones half-
slipped? A galaxy of longing
sputters in the night.

–Barbara Sabol,
Original Ruse (2011)
Accents Publishing

Barbara Sabol’s poetry and prose has appeared in Public-Republic, Blood Lotus, Poets 350, the Tupelo Press Poetry Project,Tributaries, and on the Akron Art Museum’s website. She has an MFA from Spalding University. Barbara is a long-practicing speech therapist, living in northeastern Ohio with her partner and dogs.