Morning Person | Alex Goodson

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Woke up to shy blue//Thought about praying//Forgot how to//Kept my hands pressed together anyway//Drank half a pot of coffee//Used extra cream because my mouth//Wanted to feel as full as it does holding a lover’s tongue//Started a book about the end of the world//Made breakfast//Pierced a frozen strawberry with my fork//Shivered at the scrape when I//Dragged it through the dribble of yolk on the plate//Opened a collection of Louise Glück poems to one called The Egg and The Universe//Laughed when I found your handwritten note inside from July that told me you finally felt home//Touched myself and almost//Believed my wannabe holy hands were yours//Finished the book//Cried at the last page when the main character//Spoke about the many faces of her long gone beloved and how she will//Look for a long, long time//Combed cheap mascara through my wet lashes//Used extra deodorant//Put on my Nana’s gold bracelet and my two rings, you still have the third and I//Know you still wear it I can see it in the pictures you still send me//I know you//Know I notice little details like that//oh//What a surprise, a DM from you about something friends try to talk about//Thought about more coffee//Thought about more cream//Thought about your mouth//Thought about lunch//Thought about the impossible draft from the open window somewhere in me, I know you have the chill too//Thought we could find it together//Thought we could pack it with marigolds//It’s 9:56 A.M.//

What a day


Alex Goodson is a 2-time Emmy winning writer and producer for Good Morning America and the co-founder of the GMA Book Club. Alex is also an award-winning poet and author. Her work can be found in Sonora Review, The Tulsa Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, and Beyond Queer Words. She is the Atlanta Review 2024 International Merit Award Winner for Poetry. She loves Joni Mitchell, 50/50 gin martinis with a twist, cooking, Tetris, and billiards. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog Bucatini.