About Alexandra Heep:

Alexandra Heep is a longtime writer, chronic over-thinker, and recovering content mill survivor. Her work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and online platforms where words are still respected. She writes children’s books, health reflections, and the occasional blog post laced with humor and hard-won honesty. After years of illness, detours, and navigating the noise of modern wellness, she returned to writing with the firm belief that stories—like people—don’t have to be perfect to matter. She publishes under multiple pen names and drinks more goat milk than you’d expect.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Voices

This poem was inspired by a word bank posted by Kat Apf. The words were: rhapsody, well, tennis.


They want you to decide

between left and right:

You're too liberal! You're too tight!

You're not straight! You're too narrow!

Their voices cry out

in a never-ending rhapsody

of ill-harmonies.



Again and again

they lower their buckets

into the poisoned well

hauling up more insults

to be hurled back and forth

over the thorny net

on the tennis court of life.



… While the clay is cracking

underneath us all.

(If you are looking for  my A-Z Challenge posts, you can find them at my other blog)
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