​M.S. Rooney

Tell Me Your Story Again

We all sometimes feel
how our own stories
are no more alive
than day-old salt cod.

Come here by the fire
where the flame
crackles and leaps.

Let the heat work
your center line
soft and smooth and
strong and sweet as
freshly pulled
salt water taffy.

Tell me your story again.


 

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M.S. Rooney and her husband, poet Dan Noreen, live in Sonoma, California. Her work appears in journals, including The Cortland Review, The Laurel Review, Main Street Rag, Other Voices and 3 AM Magazine.