I am a stranger
I am not your bird
I am not your sea
I am not your inspiration
I am not your tree
I am not your ear ear
I am not your flirt
I am not your overseer
I am not your dirt
I am not your Ledbetter
I am not your Freud
I am not your fairy tale
I am not your every wish for
I am not your Prophet
I am not your favor and favor and favor
I am a
stranger
Wendy Gist was raised in the forest of the Southwest on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Arizona. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in For Women Who Roar, Fourth River, New Plains Review, Oyez Review, Rio Grande Review, Soundings Review, St. Austin Review, Sundog Lit, The Chaffey Review, Tulane Review and other fine journals. Gist has worked as a professional contributing writer for many leading publications including Better Nutrition, Caribbean Travel and Life, eDiets, New Mexico Magazine, Pilates Style, Today’s Diet and Nutrition, and numerous others (national and international). She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of the chapbook Moods of the Dream Fog (Finishing Line Press, 2016). She was named semifinalist for The Best Small Fictions, 2017.
