2 poems by award winning poet Adamarie Fuller

Adamarie Fuller’s poems have appeared in several publications including Texas Poetry Calendar (Honorable Mention, 2009), The Weight of Addition, The Austin International Poetry Festival Anthology (Honorable Mention, 2011), A Summers Poems, The Houston Poetry Fest Anthology, Sol Magazine, The Poetry Revolt and Poetry at Round Top.  Outside the poetry world, Adamarie is a CPA for a multinational firm, mother and grandmother.

 

 Farm Life   

 

The summer wind whispered through cracks in the clapboards;

outside, his high-plains cows rested in the meager shade.

Lunch consisted of an unlucky chicken, with okra and tomatoes.

She sipped sweet tea while he cleared dishes from the table;

he washed - she dried.  She tuned the radio to her soap opera,

he walked toward the barn to start his afternoon chores.

 

He could see so far that day - certainly outside Floyd County -

maybe all the way to New Mexico.  He dreamed of California,

forests of redwood trees, beautiful women, water.

It was comforting to squeeze that cool trigger,

leave this reality behind for others to inhabit.

After the funeral, people wondered why he would leave

his farm of sixty years, the house, the barn, the cows.

She sat, eating vanilla ice cream, and understood.

 

(Austin International Poetry Festival Honorable Mention 2011) 

Adamarie Fuller 

 

Change of Life    

 

My theory is that responsibility

makes you gain weight,

worry adds cellulite,

gray hair and bunions.

 

It must be true because

the evidence is right in front of me:

the old lady staring back

at me from the bathroom mirror.

 

When I was a teenager I would

down two hamburgers at a time,

Coca-Colas were swilled

throughout bikini summers.

 

An ex-husband, two kids,

assorted pets, jobs and homes

have worked their way through

my life, my character, my face.

 

It’s now one-piece swimsuits for me,

with a cover-up, floppy hat, sunglasses

and a big bottle of sun screen

for those romance-novel summers ahead!

 

(Texas Poetry Calendar Honorable Mention 2009) 

Adamarie Fuller