NATIONS GIANT HAMBURGERS PRIVATE ROOM 1800 UNIVERSITY AVE AT GRANT.
Sande Anfang is a lifelong Sunday poet who began to write fervently about two years ago. She is an online poem-a-day junkie, and, aside from a few workshops here and there, is mostly self-taught. She hosts Rivetown Poets: A-Muse-ing Mondays, a monthly poetry series in Petaluma. Sande has self-published four collections of poetry and is now wading in the somewhat unsettling waters of poetry submission. Her poems have appeared in the The Shine Journal, Poetalk, San Francisco Peace and Hope, and West Trestle Review.
Sande is inspired by the mundane: animal, mineral, vegetable. She likes to explore oddities and malformed things, stripping them down to their humanity. She is also inspired by human foibles, especially her own.
The Dare
The Dare
What do they have to do
to wake us
from the drug of blindness
excise our cataracts?
inertia jams the gate.
They die by billions
from hive collapse
disappear as contraband
stolen by men in inspectors’ clothing
make back-page news.
Listen to their warnings
buzzed out in a code
cracked by jeweled dwarves:
Save the flowers
berries
carrots
kale.
Save us from ourselves.
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