by Linda Wimberly
i want to drink
to get drunk
sit on the floor
get stoned
talk existentialism
maybe transcendental
meditation
i want to pick up
a stranger
who sits
at the bar
not be afraid
to show my body
wake
in a strange bed
naked
spent
i want to fill
the holes
left by life
love myself
love others
that’s not asking
too much
is it
Linda Wimberly is a writer, artist and musician from Marietta, GA. A former Vermont Studio Center resident in writing, her poetry has appeared in The Raw Art Review, Lunch Ticket, Stone River Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems and others and a short story appeared in Cricket. She is a self-taught, abstract artist who works in acrylic, oil and mixed media and her images have appeared in or been cover art for jelly bucket, Critical Pass Review, Inscape Magazine and others. Her image “Woman on the Move” won the 2019 Art Contest for So to Speak: feminist journal of language and art. (lindawimberly.com)