Tritina Fifteen

by | May 6, 2014 | Poetry

Librarians can’t get enough of acronyms.
I dated one once. That’s what he stood for.
Keep your eyes on me. It’s a game, he’d say. 

P.S. TGIF. What this meant, I couldn’t say
& couldn’t judge. I was into heteronyms
homonyms, homophones, e.g., fore & four,

poor & pour, et cetera. Long before
these were the first words I could say:
Respondez S’il Vous Plait & retronym.

What’s a synonym for opposite? I can’t say.

 

 

Photo By: Rob White

About The Author

Kathleen Rooney

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. Co-editor of The Selected Writings of René Magritte, forthcoming from Alma Books (UK) and University of Minnesota Press (U.S.) in 2016, she is also the author of seven books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including, most recently, the novel, O, Democracy! (2014) and the novel in poems, Robinson Alone (2012). Her second novel, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2017.