Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of 25 books and chapbooks, including Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience (Lavender Ink), twice nominated for the Elgin Award. Her poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Abyss & Apex, Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, Red Rose Review, Star*Line, Silver Blade, and elsewhere. Her latest book is Velocipede.
pyrus communis
If cultivated to sweeten their tongue,
they grow us staked or caged, hairless
twigs and leaves, starred and starved...
We were looking for mold, but found the door. I didn’t want to open it. You didn’t want to open it, so it opened itself for us...
