AUTHOR'S NOTE:

This is a slimmed-down version of a collage poem, which I wrote by cutting out words and phrases from magazines and gluing them together on a paint chip. It was influenced by a recent dream I’d had in which my grandmother (who doesn’t walk around much anymore, always wears a nightgown, and met my grandfather in a Polish dance hall) and I were dancing a waltz around her small New York City apartment.

BIO:

Christine Poreba’s poems have recently appeared in The Southern Review, Alimentum and The Sun. She currently teaches English as a Second Language to adults in Tallahassee, Florida, where she lives with her husband and their furry red dog.