A Poem by Laura Winton

Autumn

 

Listen how feathers

borrow the wind from trees how they

steal breath from the candle dreaming

of light off the glass. Feel your hands

on the cookie you read

it like a braille book, explore the

texture see how they

taste on your

fingertips.

 

 

Laura Winton, aka Fluffy Singler is a writer and performer currently living in Minneapolis . She has been writing for more than 25 years and her poetry has been published and performed around the world. She has performed her experimental poetry at the Bowery Poetry Club, the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, and Bar 13 in New York , the Green Mill and Trace Bar in Chicago and at dozens of venues in the Twin Cities. She published Karawane: or, the Temporary Death of the Bruitist, a journal devoted to experimental writers who perform their work, for roughly 10 years. She loves Surrealism and Dada and believes that the Surrealist goal of the liberation of the imagination is the most political act that a writer can perform.