What’s all this dancing for?
A new bunion on our toe?
If you were a wart, I’d freeze you off.
If you were made of snow, I’d pat your belly every night.
I promise to keep you in shape for as long as I can.
But I’m really waiting for the sun.
Any second now.
Any second now.
Olivia Muenz holds an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, where she earned the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award in prose and served as an editor for New Delta Review. She is the author of the chapbook Where Was I Again (Essay Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill Journal, Anomaly, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Louisiana State University. Find her online at oliviamuenz.com.
