1.

s and n
disagree
about
some things

2.

s prefers
dumplings
small
and moist

3.

n prefers
her
dumplings
large

4.

both
s and n
love
dumplings

–Nettie Farris,
Communion (2013)
Accents Publishing

More from Communion and Nettie Farris:

• “Curiosity”
• “Mazurka”
• An Interview with Nettie Farris
• Writing Prompt: “Favorite Letter of the Alphabet”
• “Dilly Dallying”
• Nettie Farris’s Lexington Poetry Month 2013 Submissions

Nettie Farris teaches writing as an adjunct instructor, roams the grounds of Mount Saint Francis Nature Sanctuary with her dog, and hikes the Millennium Trail at Bernheim Forest. Her work has appeared in the anthologies The Dark Woods I Cross: An Anthology of Contemporary Louisville Women Poets and Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. She lives in Floyds Knobs, Indiana with her husband and three sons.