The gossip
always the latest –

if you want to know,
she’s the one,

you needn’t ask,
she’ll just tell

but;

one day
she just stops.

When asked
she replies

that she’s been
unkind, as if

she just found out
who she’d been.

Selected byNolcha Fox
Image credit:Vitolda Klein

Julie A. Dickson has written poetry for over 50 years, has served on two poetry boards, has served as a guest editor for several journals, coordinated 100 Thousand Poets for Change for 5 years and her work appears often in publications including Medusa's Kitchen, Blue Heron Review, Open Door, Misfit, MasticadoresUSA, Ekphrastic Review and Uppagus. She has authored YA fiction books including "Bullied into Silence" [Piscataqua Press] and Poetry books, the latest being "Village Girl" [Goldfish Press]. Dickson holds a BPS in Behavioral Science, advocates for captive elephants and shares her home with two rescued semi-feral cats.