3 Visual Poems

My 10-Year-Old Daughter Tells Me Science Facts
In the Car on the Drive from Her Dad’s House
And Wonders Why I’m Crying

Advice for Your First Divorced Christmas

*
Be

Prepared

to put up your

Christmas tree in Jan-

uary, and take it down in March.

***

First published in Streetcake Magazine.

Resizing the Metaphor

First published in Antiphony.

Francesca Leader

Francesca Leader is a self-taught writer and artist originally from Western Montana. She has poetry published or forthcoming in the Sho Poetry Journal, Frost Meadow Review, Door is a Jar, Stanchion, Nixe’s Mate, Streetcake, Bullshit Lit, Cutbow Quarterly, Literary Mama, Back Patio Press, and elsewhere. Learn more about her work at inabucketthemoon.wordpress.com.

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