Mark LaMonda is an artist and writer who lives in Santa Clarita California. His work has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Lullwater Review, January House Literary Journal, and is forthcoming in Tough Poets Review, Boudin and South Florida Poetry Journal.
Her dress was blue sky
that her body seemed to be trying out.
My suit was brown earth
with my arms outstretched,
inviting the woman to play dress-up.
Come.
I have my own room of sky and earth,
water and animal.
Let's slip on what fits
and take dancing lessons from the cow.
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