Skeleton Rose
too sad for laughing that strange
normal
her face a sculpture of ice
tissue the color of
paperweight eyes
from the fabled garden
erasure, Anne Rice, Taltos, pg. 490
palmate leaves, Scented Geranium, Pelargonium radans
Sonja Johanson holds an MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and has recent work appearing in American Life in Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, and Sugar House Review. Her most recent chapbook is Trees in Our Dooryards (Redbird Chapbooks). Sonja divides her time between work in Massachusetts and her home in the mountains of western Maine. Follow her at www.sonjajohanson.net.
