Love
Shampoo
by Lesléa Newman
gleams in
your palm
a dollop
of opal moon
slathered,
it lathers
you into a
Roman goddess
a marvel
of marble
sleek,
slender, and smooth
all your
worries whirling
and
swirling down the drain
refreshed
and dressed
you seize
the day don’t
be
surprised if you turn
heads as
you saunter down the street
there has
never been anyone
more
lovely than you
* * * * *
“Love Shampoo”
copyright ©2018 Lesléa Newman from Lovely (Headmistress Press,
Sequim, WA). Here is a book trailer for Lovely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh27-KoGS84.
Lesléa Newman is a poet, fiction writer,
essayist, children’s book writer and anthologist whose 70 books include the
poetry collections, Still Life with Buddy, Nobody’s Mother, Signs
of Love, and October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard (novel-in-verse)
which received a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association. Ms.
Newman’s literary awards include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation; the Burning Bush Poetry
Prize; and second place runner-up in the Solstice Literary Journal poetry
competition. From 2008-2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton,
Massachusetts. Currently she is a faculty member of Spalding University’s
low-residency MFA in Writing program. A recent poetry collection, I
Carry My Mother, received the 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society Poetry
Award and was named a “Must-Read” title by the Massachusetts Center for the
Book. Her latest book is Lovely (Headmistress Press, Sequim, WA).
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