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Found Poem Favorite | ‘Anxious Mind’
We are honoring the top winners of our Eighth Annual Found Poem Student Contest by publishing their work from June 13 to July 3. You’ll be able to read the whole collection here as we go.
Below, a piece by Amelia D’Avanzo from Arizona, taken from a 2017 theater review, “‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis.”
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Anxious Mind
Distant times and foreign lands
do not naturally lend themselves
to perky song and dance
when the mind wanders.
The one reminiscing is the
one who has lost her memory
of an animated spectacle
with talking animals
that dance around her.
It’s a challenge not to wince,
as she trembles nonstop with internal conflicts
and has a hard time squeezing
into the corsets of songs
that bear her name.
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