By Jane Barnes
When Linda came
To pick me up from
My typing job and
Said Hi honey are
You ready? I died.
She was dressed
In sports clothes
Stood tall at 5’ 8”
I was proud and appalled.
Jane Barnes has published work inBWQfor more than 14 years, and has poems in Gay & Lesbian Quarterly, Ploughshares, River Styx, The Massachusetts Review, andWrongdoing. Her work appears in the anthologies Bi Any Other Name and Getting Bi. She lives in New York City, in the U.S.
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