Poetry by Victoria Nordlund

     Rudi Riet CC




Dcompose
In 10th grade, I wrote 
a collection of sonnets
in the shapes of coffins &
you gave me a D, recited parts 
to the class, declared nothing 
could resurrect these flat 
lines, pressed your red
ballpoint deep into the
margins, noted the only 
semi-salvageable line:  
I can taste your mediocrity--
you should probably know


I didn’t write another poem until I was thirty-two.





Victoria Nordlund is the Poet Laureate of Glastonbury, CT, and lead master teaching artist of the The Nook Farm Writers Collaborative at The Mark Twain House & Museum. Her poetry collections Wine-Dark Sea and Binge Watching Winter on Mute are published by Main Street Rag. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize Nominee, whose work has appeared in PANK Magazine, Rust+Moth, Chestnut Review, Maudlin House, trampset,  and elsewhere. Visit her at VictoriaNordlund.com
​