Truly Edison features 9/10/2018

9/10/2018 Truly Edison hosted by Jim

Truly Edison is a senior at Alameda Community Learning Center, and the current poet laureate of her school. She lives in Alameda with her parents, her three siblings, and her pet dog. She has been writing poetry since middle school, and is very active within her school's poetry club. She describes her writing as a form of dreaming while awake; a method of processing outside images and sensation through words.

"BODYWORDZ"

My heart is no organ of fire

Because I'm much too shy

It's more of a deer at the side of the highway

Wandering the dying grass with headlight eyes

It lives only at dusk and dawn

Creeping into the light when all others lay still 

Decaying in the shallow end of sleep

In my mind I conjured up a collage of you

Eyes and ears and tongues disconnected 

Out of context

But what finally did it was

A single strand of my hair on your bathroom counter

And the fraud of intimacy

It so coyly implied