Callie Plaxco
Aphasia
There are whole days
that pass
without a single thought
taking shape
into intelligible words.
The wind screams
and I think
perhaps it is a child
waking.
But the leaves shake
and always
there are noises that will sound
like children.
As her grandmother once said, Callie Plaxco flew the coop when she left South Carolina to journey west to the University of Wyoming for her MFA in Creative Writing. Her chapbook Dear Person is available at Dancing Girl Press and individual poems have appeared in Carve Magazine, Tinderbox, SWWIM and Sugar House Review. She is the 2024 recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council’s Neltje Blanchan Writing Award.