Poetry is My Underwear
My sister found them.
Read them out loud.
She’s so proud,
she’s running to our parents
waving my poems in the air.
Doesn’t she know
she’s waving my underwear?
Copyright Credit: April Halprin Wayland, "Poetry is My Underwear" from Girl Coming in for a Landing: A Novel in Poems. Copyright © 2002 by April Halprin Wayland. Reprinted by permission of April Halprin Wayland.
Source: Girl Coming in for a Landing: A Novel in Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2002)