Nicole Cartwright Denison

Note to Self: Now, This is a Scandal for You

  grocery boy: just another john doe

  let there be an end to this misery

  enough: adjectives: branching out

  tidal waves & boxes: rushing: new world order

  nothing doing: through the looking glass: black hole

  paradigm shift: incubation period: springing forward

  and in other news: tipping point: of lambs & lions

  this is how you almost do it

The Placebo Effect

  it’s a house with too many men: 

  double-blind trials

  liberal sugar ration

  lethal in some doses

  surplus scratch-n-sniffs

  sanction contact high

  carats and twigs

  stable moods offer

  wise counsel contrition:

  categorically deny the party line

  the party line

  the party line

Nicole Cartwright Denison is the author of Recovering the Body (dancing girl press, 2007) and lives on a trout farm in western North Carolina. Work is forthcoming in WOMB and Blue Fifth Review and has appeared in Poetry Midwest, Ectoplasmic Necropolis, tattoo highway, alba, elimae, reimagining place: Ecotone's blog, The Flask Review, The Pedestal Magazine and others. You can find her on the web and driving through the river gorge.