Dreams by Elizabeth Levinson

She appears as a polaroid
just above concrete
62 years, if she hasn’t
14 stories
high, in heels
controlled top nylons
skirt to the 10th floor
needs more
an empty couch
in the apartment
mother and father
fifty dollars an hour
needs sleep
dreams for rotted teeth
for sour lips kissing
those who keep missing the point.


Elizabeth Levinson is a high school English teacher on the South side of Chicago.  She is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University in Oregon.  She has been published in Roast Magazine, as the winner of the 2005 Davis Demitasse poetry contest.