Muscle Memory
by Kristin Garth
is why a housewife in grocery stores
is teleported off flecked, waxed tile floors by
Behind The Wheel. A heel and arch divorced
from time and place will lengthen, linger. Shy
eyelids, escape propelled by hips. Old men
lose grips on potato chips, an audience
by accident, without a dollar, spent
or seen, a stripper walk with shopping list,
suburban routines. Twirl in tennis skirt
with pleats to some synthesized familiar
Depeche Mode beats evocative — perverts
neon lights. Decade lemonade demure,
a strip club soundtrack may erase today.
She doesn’t need their cash. She wants to play.
is teleported off flecked, waxed tile floors by
Behind The Wheel. A heel and arch divorced
from time and place will lengthen, linger. Shy
eyelids, escape propelled by hips. Old men
lose grips on potato chips, an audience
by accident, without a dollar, spent
or seen, a stripper walk with shopping list,
suburban routines. Twirl in tennis skirt
with pleats to some synthesized familiar
Depeche Mode beats evocative — perverts
neon lights. Decade lemonade demure,
a strip club soundtrack may erase today.
She doesn’t need their cash. She wants to play.
Biography
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Kristin Garth is a Pushcart & Best of the Net nominated sonnet stalker. Her poetry has stalked magazines like Glass, Yes, Five:2: One, Anti-Heroin Chic, Former Cactus, Occulum, Luna Luna, & many more. She has a chapbook Pink Plastic House (Maverick Duck Press), three forthcoming: Pensacola Girls (Bone & Ink Press, Sept 2018) and Shakespeare for Sociopaths (The Hedgehog Poetry Press Jan 2019), Puritan U (Rhythm & Bones Lit March 2019). Her full length, Candy Cigarette, is forthcoming April 2019 (The Hedgehog Poetry Press). Follow her on Twitter: (@lolaandjolie), her weekly poetry column (https://www.rhythmnbone.com/sonnetarium) and her website (kristingarth.wordpress.com).
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