florals? for spring? groundbreaking.

maggie chirdo

Well, actually…
in spring
the florals are literally
breaking ground.

That something has been done before
is no case not to do
it again.

We never
say what we mean
out loud
to mean woman
ice queens with
snow white, moon white
hair. Too busy muscling
through the dirt
in this slithering season
for the mere chance
to feel something
straining, upturned.

about the author

The writer Maggie Chirdo poses in front of vertical blinds. She wears a series of golden necklaces and stares directly at the camera.

Maggie Chirdo (she/her(s)) is a writer from a humid slice of southeast Texas. Her poetry and journalism appears in Texas Observer, Entropy Magazine, Bitch Media, Little Blue Marble, and elsewhere. If Twitter still exists, come chat with her about fashion and the queer southern gothic @maggiechirdo.