Dorothy
(2014)
You can fall in love with anyone:
a fool, a shell, a coward—
and run along all right as rain
until the clouds are long lost shadows
I wandered far from home that way,
on handsome strangers’ arms,
and plodded on as we got hammered
on all the fallen fruit we gathered
Then I awoke from poison slumber,
though admittedly hungover,
better, faster, smarter, tougher—
a wiser, more courageous lover
I’d never choose to click my heels,
even if that tale were true.
Still, I dare to dream sometimes
of Dorothy before the storm
“Dorothy” first appeared in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” Issue #3 of NonBinary Review