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Peggy Love

Pink Chanel

show me how it is done
when what undergirds
buckles, crumbles
betrays as an 8mm rolls,
records the mad
scramble to retrieve
the blasted pieces
of who he used to be.
i do not have white gloves,
a pill box hat, or a
bloodstained pink suit
by Chanel to show
the world my dignity,
but my stone face
does its best to
mimic you.
 

Peggy Eldridge-Love is a poet, playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Her published and produced works include her first poetry collection , You Beckon, and stage play , The Knoll Frames. Her poetry was included in the American Greetings 2006 African-American Almanac Day-At-A-Time Calendar, she's a contributor to Help! I've Turned Into My Mother and her poetry has appeared in the literary journals Lorraine and James and Mipo~Print. Peggy is the designer/publisher of Nudgies® Greeting Cards, the editor and host of Emerging Music at BellaOnline.com, host blogger of Living on the Tip of My Pen, a monthly contributing literary blogger at Blogging in Black.com , and a frequent contributor to other zines and magazines. In addition, Peggy is an exhibited doll and jewelry artist, clay sculpture and painter.