“A June Wedding” by Monet P. Thomas

Say, Ms. Percy, I am so sorry

for lying naked on your front lawn, graceless

as a fallen lawn ornament but today

my lover is getting married.

Just let me swelter here under this Carolina sun

until I am dizzy or giddy or faint.

I promise my nakedness is not indecent

and I am sure it’s the smallest part

of me I can reveal to the public.

I would’ve worn a lace dress snugly

fitted to my hips enjoying the scratch of it

like your grass between my legs.

But ah! I feel ants’ feet walking steadily

down the aisle of my ankle.  I think I hear

the wedding march or are those sirens?

Monet Thomas is an MFA candidate at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Washington. She holds a degree in Business Administration from Elon University, but decided after graduation that she did not, in fact, enjoy business. Her work focuses on relationships and the constant shifts of power between people.