[vc_row row_height_percent=”50″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”3″ back_image=”56863″ back_position=”center top” overlay_alpha=”0″ gutter_size=”3″ shift_y=”0″][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”bottom” style=”dark” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ zoom_width=”0″ zoom_height=”0″ width=”1/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”fontsize-338686″ text_height=”fontheight-179065″ text_space=”fontspace-111509″ text_font=”font-762333″ text_weight=”700″ text_color=”color-xsdn” sub_reduced=”yes” subheading=”by Heidi Seaborn”]Sorry To Bug You, I Got Something To Say[/vc_custom_heading][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My talk
trails like ants
down my lower lip.
My words flutter & become dusty
moths nestling
in men’s wool suit pockets,
chewing holes.
Today a man talked &
talked at me.
My voice
landed on his shoulder—
a ladybug. He talked on.
The ladybug cracked
her red-speckled armor.
Flies flick the meat market’s screen door,
mosquitos sting
at night
and around the oak,
hornets swarm.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_center” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1/1″][vc_empty_space][vc_separator sep_color=”color-184322″ el_width=”30%”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_right” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ width=”1/3″][vc_single_image media=”58712″ media_width_percent=”100″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Heidi Seaborn is the author of 2020 PANK Book Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021), Give a Girl Chaos (2019) and Comstock Chapbook 2020 winner Bite Marks, with recent work in American Poetry Journal, Beloit, Copper Nickel, Cortland Review, Missouri Review and The Slowdown. Heidi is the Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal. www.heidiseabornpoet.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]