Wrought & Found

Original poems and found images.

~by Mia Sara

The Parade

My first shame made manifest
in well-tailored garments
hand sewn at the hems
with sacrificial stitches.
This wearing truth, it pins me down,
like the weight of my feet in a bucket of cement,
all dressed up in Sunday’s best,
on my grandfathers shoulders,
my heretic heart tucked under my bonnet.

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Mia Sara is an actress and poet living in Los Angeles. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in poemmemoirstory, Pembroke Magazine, The Write Room, PANK, Cultural Weekly, The Kit Kat Review, Forge, The Dirty Napkin, St. Ann’s Review, among others. For more please visit: http://wheretofindmiasara.tumblr.com/