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Angela Felsted is a musician, poet, and nature lover. Her work has appeared at TheChristianPoet.org, in Issue 15 of Drown In My Own Fears, and on her website. She lives with her husband and four children in Northern Virginia.
Angela Felsted

for my husband

 

because you are angry

i lock myself in the upstairs room.

 

because you are angry

i go to my stash of smutty books

 

to steamy sex scenes, reckless seductions

words laced with laughing gas, ether in the ink

 

to fantasies of smoldering eyes

chiseled cheekbones, hard muscled shoulders

 

to a hero whose face i change to yours

the husband who won’t touch me.

 

my skin cells are starving, wasting away, dying

because you are angry.