Stacy Campbell's Writings
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Poem
Feb.09.2010
The Teacher's Voice
This is the boy you must love
with greasy bottle black hair
eyes dark and darting
who walks into your perfect room
and purposely chooses the seat farthest from you
This is the boy you must love
whose knees bounce like a bobbin
lacking ability to cease
he walks with a stooped spine
carrying a backpack full of nothing
This is the boy you must love...
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Poem
Feb.04.2010
Splash of Red Literary Journal
my mood
has charcoal edges
it scrapes the day black
I can’t stop thinking about what is real
Sunless mornings
with scrambled eggs and sin
weigh me down
I cry
again and again
scratching mosquito bites
from yesterday
a jackknifed
woman still in bed
I know
I will end
like everyone else
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Poem
Jan.09.2010
Splash of Red Literary Journal
The dirty cracks in a beggar’s hand
told more about me than him
A spurious smile transparent to his eyes
heaved humiliation upon me
as I passed. Sliding thoughts
to a half moon place I pretend doesn’t exist
the fallacy of goodness falls flat to the ground
beneath the outstretched hand
of the needy I say I love
when I’m foolishly dressed in black...
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"Calmly go wild" ”
—Annie Dillard
About Stacy
Also published as S. Lee Campbell. Stacy is a poet and fiction writer from Mansfield Texas. She currently lives in the Mid-Cities area and attends The TWW writer's group. She is a high school English teacher, and poetry club sponsor....
Stacy’s Favorite Books
Teaching A Stone To Talk, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Breaking The Alabaster Jar- Conversations with Li-Young Lee, The Complete Work of Anne Sexton, The Portrait...