The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: "That Sister" by Sarah E. Colona

keeper

I’ll gladly share
my cage with you
if you refresh the straw

abandon all predation
temper fang
and claw

I’ll forgive you your humanity
simply look on me
in awe

This selection comes from the poetry chapbook That Sister by Sarah E. Colona, which is available to purchase here from Dancing Girl Press.

Sarah E. Colona lives and teaches in her home state of New Jersey. She is the author of three poetry collections: Hibernaculum (Gold Wake Press, 2013), Thimbles (dancing girl press, 2012) and That Sister, (dancing girl press, 2016). Sarah is a graduate of George Mason University’s MFA program. Recent poems appear in The New Verse News.

Jennie Frost is a Jewish, Appalachian poet from Maryville, TN. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Anomaly, Kudzu, Glass Mountain, Sink Hollow, Indicia, Mochila, Stirring, and Political Punch, an anthology on the politics of identity from Sundress Publications. She is a three-time winner of the Curtis Owens prize and beginning in January, she will serve as the Writer in Residence at the Sundress Academy for the Arts.