Megan Waring is a poet, playwright and fiber artist who currently resides in Boston. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from Virginia Tech and is currently earning her MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her work is forthcoming or published in Salamander, Nailed Magazine, Mortar Magazine, The Legendary, and Pulp Literature, among others. Her second co-authored play, Archer and the Yeti, is being produced by Greene Room Productions in October 2019.
TO THE LOVELIEST CLOUD
I’m sorry for asking you to sun.
Always trying to convince you
of picnics and beaches and vitamin d.
I’d forgotten that with this daisy
skin, I burn through a car window.
Forgotten that fog is my favorite
weather, rolling in low in our candy
colored neighborhood. Making
the sometimes green hills real
green. I’d forgotten how much
I hate to squint. Our bed is a ship
we never have to get off. You sail
it smooth through boulders and sirens
using the stars as a compass.
Never the sun. Never the stupid sun.
