On Being Called a “Fixture” by a Young Poet
rusty faucet moans
in the pliers' beak
dribbles inky water
Angele Ellis thinks of her childhood imaginary friends every time she logs on to her computer. An award-winning writer whose poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in over 70 journals and 15 anthologies, she is author of Arab on Radar (Six Gallery), whose poems earned her an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors' Choice Chapbook); and Under the Kaufmann's Clock (Six Gallery), a fiction/poetry hybrid inspired by Pittsburgh, with photographs by Rebecca Clever.
