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Ernie Wormwood

In The Year After The Unsaidness Stopped

They became real
beautiful
foolish was their favorite word
she wore diaphanous hats
he took up belly dancing
they just said no to underwear
and they spent the
anniversary
of their having given up
unsaidness
making a film of themselves
talking.

Ernie Wormwood has been published in The Antietam Review, Rhino, Perpetuum Mobile, Main Channel Voices, the new Creation Journal, The Broadkill Review, and at Innisfree Poetry, Hotmetal Press, and ArabesquesPress online. She was recently featured in Grace Cavalieri's “The Poet and the Poem” broadcast for the Library of Congress. Her book reviews appear in The Montserrat Review. She is grateful to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Stony Brook/Southampton Writer's Conference for artistic support. A Washington, D.C. native, Ernie lives in Leonardtown, Maryland. New poems will appear in the anthologies Poetic Voices Without Borders II and Poem Revised in 2008.