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Posted by Word Raccoon, Keeper of Glitter and Occasional Wisdom

Friends, nibblers, poetic co-conspirators!
I’m doing joyful somersaults in the compost heap today. My little raccoon heart is pitter-pattering like a vintage typewriter on a deadline. Because guess what?

🌟🌟🌟 Three of my poems were published TODAY by the wondrous and wild-hearted Word’s Faire! 🌟🌟🌟

The trio:
🧬 ‘Franken Eden’
📝 ‘A Post-It Note Found On Your Self-Worth’
📵 ‘Don’t Do It (Or Leave Her on Read)’

Yes, yes, my darlings, that’s TWO Eden poems flanking a quiet little bridge built out of sticky-note ephemera and self-worth (which, you’ll find, is more durable than one might think).

It’s been a few years since I read Frankenstein start to finish (some books haunt in layers), but lately I’ve been thinking Shelley might’ve had more than monsters in mind.

These poems are scraps of my sparkle-soul, stitched and scribbled and sung. Franken Eden is a stitched-together myth, all verdant glitch and ache. Post-It sticks to the mind in lowercase hums. And Don’t Do It, well, let’s say it’s the warning label scratched into the bark of the Tree of Knowing Better. It’s not completely Edenic but then again it’s not not Edenic. (Just read the last line and you’ll see. LOL.)

I wrote them when I was full of feeling and fig leaves, and I’m sharing them now with full sparkle and no reservations.

💫 Here’s the link.

If you read them or if you whisper one of these lines to a mug of tea later, or scrawl a phrase on your bathroom mirror in eyeliner after you read them, then thank you. That’s the dream. That’s the point.

With ink on my paws and a glitter trail behind me,
—Word Raccoon 🦝✨

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So honored and delighted. Thank you, Word’s Faire, for choosing my poetry. Dear Reader, I hope you’ll take a moment not just to read my pieces, but to explore the beautiful, strange, and brilliant work from the other writers over there. It’s a feast. Don’t miss it.

Newly back from Mackinac Island over here, so playing catchup.

💌 —Drema