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Author Interview: Tanya Lee Stone
Interview for Young Writers Project by Charlotte Dodds, YWP Intern -
9/3/22
I open the back door and sit in its frame with my fever running high, enough to make my cheeks feel
pink & unsteady and every time I think it hurts, -
At a Villa in Tuscany
The bugs are dying at night,
I say to my cousin as we sit by
the pool in the pitch black heat.
She laughs and says, I’m going to
steal that line for a poem. I say nothing -
I write everything
on a pink legal pad because this one time I read about a black-haired middle aged white woman
who lived in Manhattan and produced films and took all of her notes on pink legal pads, and the -
It's June and
we've finally entered the thick, humid heat that
accompanies early summer rain [(everyone says they feel so
good)(so alive)(oh, yes, I say)(but the concrete walls -
This Thing I Have With Purple
On Halloween, my friends and I dressed up as Donna & the Dynamos (from Mamma Mia!) and I wore this tight purple shirt with wide sleeves that draped around my arms, leaving me swimming in purple
Loves
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when leaves let go
leaves let go
each one a page ripped out of summer's book
each one a memory that hasn't been remembered since 1969
each one a fragment of what was
why care? they say.
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A Little Thought on Rain When It's Not Even Raining
When rain bounces off the windshield
In patterns,
Drumming to the sky’s heartbeat
In soft thrums,
I begin to think and
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am I free
will I ever be
is the meaning in the trees
will they ever be pleased
as I fall to my knees
does someone hear my screams
when I join everyone leaves
I wish I could just breath
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ode to the girl in my homeroom who only speaks french
she came up behind me one day & tapped me on the shoulder
i spun on my heel, unsteady, a dumb american consistently
ashamed of my language
she pointed at my face and drew a heart in the air with her thumbs
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commercial autumn
i bought pumpkin pie lip balm that tasted like
fall in california
even though i'm in new hampshire
and the leaves are curling.
the lights in sephora were sickly bright
like the lights
