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| Issue 4: | July 2020 |
| Poem: | 130 words |
By Laine Cunningham
Selfie
After “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Oh, how I luv me. Let me share the ways. I luv me in what low and bright-set light My lens can seek, when I myself delight Adoring planes and angles in my face. I luv me until charges fade away From lack of juice, expended on my might. I luv me dearly, as posts strive for likes. I luv me fully, as feeds swell with praise. I luv me with the spasms of a thumb Grown flat with use, a pause I will not brook. I luv me with a warmth I only plumb Within black screens. I luv me with Facebook, With snaps and Instagram; my swipes expunge The flaws on which I cannot bear to look.
Laine Cunningham
is a novelist and a three-time recipient of The Hackney Award. Recent books include Reparation (an Honorable Mention in the 2016 Writer’s Digest ebook award), The Family Made of Dust (a novel set in the Australian Outback which won two national awards), and Seven Sisters: Messages From Aboriginal Australia (an award-winning collection of essays published in 2017).
Her short prose and poetry have been published by Reed Magazine, Birmingham Arts Journal, Fiction Southeast, Wraparound South, and As You Were: The Military Review. She is the senior editor and publisher of Sunspot Literary Journal, a multinational publication seeking to change the world.
Author’s website: http://www.lainecunningham.com/
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