Jules Archer: My Mother Tells Me

A Skirt Too Short

I have a skirt

a skirt too short to sit

only I need to sit to eat

but my mother tells me that if I sit

to eat what is on that plate then

said skirt will no longer fit

so I stay standing in a skirt

too short

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Jules Archer is the author of the chapbook, All the Ghosts We've Always Had (Thirty West Publishing, 2018) and the short story collection, Little Feasts (Thirty West Publishing, 2020). Her writing has appeared in various journals, including SmokeLong Quarterly, Pank, Maudlin House, and elsewhere.