Manufactured
Tell her who she is
slap a sticky label
around her humble head
shroud her ankles
in milky weights
shrink-wrap her lives
her cluttered selves not held
they’ll tell you who she is
(and isn’t)
a quick and easy stamp
on her feet
scratch the laws
into her chalky bones
blow the dust of her away.
Jenny Taylor Moodie is a writer based in Cedar City, Utah. She works at Southern Utah University as the Coordinator of Parent and Family Services. Jenny is passionate about the arts and loves theater, modern art, and music.
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