She tries on eyeshadow,
and high heels.
Wonders how it would feel to be free,
unencumbered
and emancipated.
She takes a drink,
tends her garden,
contemplates the 5pm flight to Paris,
carries on in spite of
his spite,
and creates herself
a lovely day.
Tobi Alfier is a multiple Pushcart nominated poet and Best of the Net nominated poet whose poems have appeared in The Chaffin Journal, Chiron Review, Cholla Needles, Coe Review, Gargoyle, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Nerve Cowboy, Permafrost, The Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Suisun Valley Review, Town Creek Poetry, and other print and online journals in the United States and abroad. The original version of Sanity Among the Wildflowers was published in 2005 under the name of Tobi Cogswell. She is the co-editor of the San Pedro River Review.
