……
This poem is from the chapbook A Life of Small Resistances by Monika Wysong (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/a-life-of-small-resistances-by-monika-wysong/
Monika Wysong is a Philadelphia-based poet and playwright. Her chapbook, Poems for the Rest of Us, was published by Moonstone Press. Her play, Laundromat, was featured in Short Plays on Twelve on Philadelphia’s PBS station, and she has been a semi-finalist in the Louisville Actors’ Theater playwriting competition. Her poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA from Goddard College.
The Paddock Review 