Scarecrow
Chantal Gadoury
The essential facts are:
If I live inside you
And you’re stitched into me
We’re sorted safely together [Never Apart].
You are the gauzy one.
You are sewn (deep.) [Take a breath]
Evasively full of patches and seams.
Forgetfully tugging at the stained thread.
(You want to leave?)
You’re wild in this autumn light,
In your ‘getting-somewhere-costume”
Going nowhere. [Listen to me now]
Your red juice on your lips
Rippling like a river: in and out
For the meanwhile--you are here.
For the time being--until you break loose.
Chantal Gadoury is from Muncy, PA, and is a senior Creative Writing major. She is in love with Disney movies and obsessed with Tumblr. She has plans to travel to Colorado in search of some writing job to pay back the loans she has accumulated over the past four years. She is sad to leave her friends (Besties and Roberto) and will miss them a lot. Until graduation, you will find her singing along to Tangled and trying to finish her novel “Seven Seeds of Summer.”
Issue 5
2011