K.B. Nelson

Leisure Suite

By K.B. Nelson

Fall 2020

Look down at the fractal

flounce of my boho

dress as I step through

my day. Absurd to work

in such a skirt, my office

chair wheels would coil the edges up

into themselves til I’d be found

neatly bound to the chair.

Swirl to the weekend beat.

Sashay to the piano,

take a stab at some tunes

and make a hash of them.

Inept with abandon,

savor my artless endeavor

with this audience of none.

My time free time down time

no judge no critic no ego—

aspiration if not fact.

Time to reread that favorite

tract, time to sharpen my focus

on myself,

no profit in that.

Sexy décolleté, cut crocus in

my mess of unwashed

hair, mismatched earring

skims my shoulder—

admire my finery, herald of

a successfully frittered day.

K.B. Nelson is a Canadian writer with one foot firmly in the camp of Art and the other in Science. She has won awards in both poetry and short fiction. You can find her work in a variety of publications, including Tiny Spoon, Nourish-Poetry and Sea-To-Sky Review. K.B. has resided from coast to coast in Canada, in Arizona, and in New Zealand. A graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Southbank writing program, she currently lives and writes in Greater Vancouver.