Who will miss me when I’m dead?
Maybe someone reading this
is just the sort of daisy head
who will miss me when I’m dead
and planted in a tulip bed.
To her, I offer this red kiss.
Who will miss me when I’m dead?
Maybe someone reading this.
(first published in Light Quarterly)
Daylight Losing Time
I dread turning clocks back an hour.
I’m scared of the turning of leaves.
I’m sorry my mood turns so sour.
I dread turning clocks back an hour.
Can I spring up ahead like a flower?
In fall my clock withers and grieves.
I dread turning clocks back an hour.
I’m scared of the turning of leaves.
(first published in Snakeskin)
BIO Mary Meriam's chapbook of poems, The Countess of Flatbroke (afterword by Lillian Faderman), was published in 2006 by Modern Metrics. Her poems and essays have been published in Literary Imagination, Light, Windy City Times, Umbrella, The Lyric, OCHO, Soundzine, A Prairie Home Companion, and The Gay & Lesbian Review, among others.
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