William Wright Harris is a student at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, where he has studied poetry in workshop settings with poets such as Jesse Janeshek, Marilyn Kallet, Arthur Smith, and Marcel Brouwers. William’s poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Cannon’s Mouth, Ascent Aspirations, and Write On!!!
Ode on a Fortune Cookie
By William Wright Harris
Ode on a Fortune Cookie
By William Wright Harris
Tearing off the plastic
wrapper–a cheap dress.
wrapper–a cheap dress.
Crackcrackcracking
the beige exoskeleton.
Fingers plucking out the
piece of divinity–
only to find blank
paper looking back.
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