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Monday, December 2, 2013

Laura Theobald




Jane Zemel


to dream

a dress is a way to change or
transport i mean i would wear the dress
of my mother for a day to be able 
to dream and maybe on that day
wearing the dreaming dress i would want
to hold a baby and hold the baby
somewhere in a hallway alone to be able
to coo and hum quietly at the baby
which is neither yet aware or responsive
which is not aware of the special act
of swaying alone in a hallway quietly
with the baby breathing listening  to 
my skirt swoosh against itself 
as i hum


Laura Theobald is a Florida Keys native and a poetry MFA candidate at LSU in Baton Rouge. Her filmic, digital, and written poetic works have appeared in The Volta: Medium, Arsenic Lobster, Real Poetik, Internet Poetry, and others. She has a self-published internet-based series called "Cleverbot, My Only Friend." She works as an editor for the New Delta Review, (wo)manorial, and Spooky Girlfriend Press. 

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