THE EXHIBITION
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THE EXHIBITION •
‘Laundry Manifesto, Unspoken’
Costello Keene is an undergraduate student at Slippery Rock University, where she majors in secondary education English and minors in writing. She has been previously published in multiple young writers' anthologies and acts as the assistant editor for The Slab magazine. Costello has been writing ever since she can remember and could not imagine a world without it.
Photographic - Tobi Brun
Laundry Manifesto, Unspoken
What comes of a button front shirt
Fluttering in the wind
On a line
Dancing like a porcelain
Girl
Shining legs exposed
Brazen in this fertile
Sun
Taken
Polished finger
Tips
Spreading
The wooden
Mouths
Send the
Sheets
Falling
Layed flat
Across warm board
Fabric touching
Fabric
Dusting white
Snow
Shatter to the
Lapelled
Collar
Broken tails
Of a bombshell
The act of
So lovingly
Plucking paper
Boxes
Full of the
Fatal
Powders
To be adorned
The dressing
Table
Despise the
Inequity
Maroon sweater
Lying
Unalive
In the arm chair
Killed maybe
By its own
Cotton membrane?
Spoon the iron
Killing machine
Burning seams
Flat
To stretch again
Be pressed level
Once more
By another set of
Of noonly
Hands
Finally
In my last ditch
Attempt
Thwarted
Always
By the impenetrable
Steam
The choking
Starch
I throw limp
Dusted
man
Body absent
Into the
Dryer
Heat up
Wait patiently
For it
To Shrink
Costello Keene is an undergraduate student at Slippery Rock University, where she majors in secondary education English and minors in writing. She has been previously published in multiple young writers' anthologies and acts as the assistant editor for The Slab magazine. Costello has been writing ever since she can remember and could not imagine a world without it.