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Ann Murphy Fletcher started writing and publishing in 1994. During that time, she has published many poems in such journals as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Georgia Journal, Providence Magazine, Psychopoetica, The Lucid Stone, Ibbetson St. Press, Parnassus, Pegasus, Negative Capability and many more. She has published articles in the on-line magazine Better After Fifty and several in local newspapers especially the Waltham/Newton Tribune. She also has published six short stories and is getting ready to launch a blog about weight loss and maintaining it.

SUBURBAN ANGST

I was in a divey dream

The other night

Drinking Cosmopolitans

With Rhianna and

I knew it was a dream

Because I never drink

Pink drinks when

I’m driving and

I was smoking

Smelly Cuban cigars

Though I lobby against

Tobacco liars and

My legs were not crossed

At the knee corners

And my hair

Was spiked with

Common adjectives

And I was as pierced

As Kabul but it

Felt like Amsterdam

And the leather stools

Had melted into

Biker pants

As slippery as

Shelled pistachios and

I woke up hung over

Well past suburbia

The beat of city heat

Sending me back

To a sweaty sleep

Where a Harley Davidson

Crashed into my Toyota

And I awoke bone jangled

— Ann Murphy Fletcher

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