Verdad Magazine Volume 34
Spring 2023, Volume 34
Poetry by Elizabeth Rose
Fog on New Year
& our friends backed down
calling it too soupy for safe driving.
Bold and brazen
we switched off the headlamps
& the buttery gauze
rose like a chiffon crescendo.
Later, the porch lights
were yellow like butterscotch
ice cream in a black bowl.
You built a fire that crackled.
BIO: Elizabeth Rose’s essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic, the Boston Globe, New Mexico Review, The Worcester Journal and Escape by The Pathfinders Collective. She received her MFA in Creative Non-Fiction in 2019 from Lesley University. In 2020 she authored a chapter in Today's Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing the World, by Asha Dahya. She has a psychotherapy practice in Massachusetts where she lives with her husband.