Tuesday poem #698 : Emily Shafer : sticky note

 

 

the paper mate is salaried

unlike dogwalking on sunset

though sparkly as tea bags

still warm after all these days

sopping up clouds for our benefit

leaving a powder at the bottom rung

while the bottom rug of my living room

breaks up our need to wait for tomorrow

 

 

 

Emily Shafer is a poet and photographer. She is an incoming MFA candidate in Image Text at Cornell University, has an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from Brooklyn College, and teaches first-year writing at CUNY. She is the author of it’s too early for poetry (Proper Tales Press, 2025) and publications in The Academy of American Poets, The Brooklyn Review, and more. Born and raised in Rochester, N.Y., she lives and works in New York City. @emilyshaferwrites

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