March 2022
Bio Note: A V-V member for 2-3 years, I enjoy reading work by V-V participants. A professor of English and Creative Writing for over 30 years at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, I write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and children's literature and published my first poem in Campfire Girls Magazine at the age of 8. This spring, I will have published 19 collections. For more information, please see www.marjoriemaddox.com
Pro-Choice
Better than any Whitman Sampler’s thirty pieces of diet betrayal, this flimsy Dunkin box hoards plenty of greedy dough and jelly enough to overflow the small belly of a See’s sweet cocoa concoction. Give me the cream and the swirl, the puff and the powder, the fruit and the glaze, the stretch-the-lips wide bite into chocolate or cherry not trapped in buckeye-sized melting morsels but expansively and inexpensively freed through the baker’s thirteen good-deal fried possibilities of choice after choice after choice.
Originally published in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
©2022 Marjorie Maddox
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