Dorothy's Poem

Lorraine Schein

Lorraine Schein is a New York writer. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, Nonbinary Review, Vallum, and in the anthology Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. "Dorothy's Poem" was originally published in "The Futurist's Mistress" by Mayapple Press on January, 1st 2006. It is now a part of Short Édition's series, The Current.

Originally published in "The Futurist's Mistress" by Mayapple Press, 2006

The gray field of the rain had risen.
She slept on the worn patchwork quilt
of the sky.

When she woke up,
she dreamt that her house was flying,
that a witch rode by—
past the clouds, on a bicycle.

Where was the air going?
The wind poured out from her eyes.