Tiffany Noonan

OUT

The company estimates approximately 14,000 power poles were
damaged by Wilma – more than the sum total of those replaced
after the 2004 hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne combined.

Two girls,

(one in boyshorts,
the other in bikinis,
hold each other & marvel

—Even white cotton glows
dark by candlelight,
but oh!—

how their skin flickers through
those holes folded
up-&-out in the sky,

lines down:
all those constellations
like freckles, holes torn in

underwear, ashes
in the Weber bottom)
drinking tequila without lime

& asking each other how
another woman scattered
power above them.

Tiffany Noonan currently lives in Coral Springs, Florida, where she is working on a novel and a year-long exploration of the lyric essay using featured articles from Wikipedia. Her work has appeared in can we have our ball back?, Words on Walls, Shampoo Poetry , and other journals.