#PEPPER

Heather Sweeney

In this selfie I’m trying to wink & it is shameful

I’d like to call this post the comeback

But I have nothing to come back from

I’d like to call this sunset avenue

Or to tell you I quit smoking

But I’m still grey watching TMZ 

In a crinoline dress

In a still life with Kesha and Diet Dr. Pepper 

Heather Sweeney, she/her, lives in San Diego where she writes, teaches and does visual art.  Her chapbooks include Just Let Me Have This (Selcouth Station Press) and Same Bitch, Different Era: The Real Housewives Poems (above/ground press).  Her collections, Dear Marshall, Language is Our Only Wilderness (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and Call Me California (Finishing Line Press) are forthcoming this year.