POETRY

 

Yellow

She wears a yellow skirt
as if it could make her pretty
as if she wanted to be pretty
She peels off the label
of a dark Irish beer
as if that could make her lucky
as if she wanted to get lucky
She walks down the street
looking for trouble
as if she wanted to find trouble
as if trouble could save her.

- Ellen Moore

Ellen has degrees in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is in Bloomington this year to study library science. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Crossing Boundaries and e and in various little journals including The Cream City Review, Sou'wester, The Kansas Quarterly, Pearl, Zone 3 and Poetry Motel.