JANETTE SCHAFER
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POETRY
Vagrancy
Kiss the soft rosy-cheeked man.
Shrink the woman to fit the clothes.
An apple dropped into a paper bag
becomes a piece of rotting fruit.
The road with its loneliness forsaken
by study hermetic resolution
as forest yields way to homestead
with sharpened stone axes.
Beneath a lion’s mane of hair
on naked fallow ground rests
the back—smooth and sloped,
eyes that look to set things right.
Janette Schafer is a freelance writer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a 2017 awardee of the Maenad Fellowship in writing through Chatham University and a 2015 awardee of the Arts MODE Fellowship in experimental theater through New Sun Rising LLC. Recent and upcoming publications include: (b)oink Magazine; Nasty Women & Bad Hombres Anthology; Chatham University broadsides; PublicSource; Calamus Journal.
Hi,
Janette Schafer, I just wanted to let you know since you don’t have a site available, that I absolutely love and fangirl over your work. I read Rivener regularly and “Dorian Gray fantasizes over Ted Bundy” is the best thing I’ve read in months. Almost (ALMOST) as good as the original Dorian Gray (and that’s my favorite book, so that’s saying a lot. Love your work. Keep writing!!!!
I’m sorry, I got the title wrong, I was rushing. “Dorian Gray fantasizes on Ted Bundy.”