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received a key to the door of the closet that held shoes for an overpriced sale, they’d kill for a pair. They’ll shoot you if you step on their shoes and shoot you to steal the pair you have and shoot once more if someone behind them attempts to steal what they have. For the boots their fathers gave them, they’ll shoot with regal nobility, gallantly. They’ll shoot without praying to protect the little they own, they’ll shoot. For all they can afford. Watch not your step and they’ll shoot. They will shoot till the boots are all that is left. |
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Nadielka Damaris Bishop was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. She is the fourth daughter of Panamanian parents. She began writing poetry at the age of nine, and began to write it well a year later. She is a graduate student at East Carolina University, majoring in creative writing. Her love for mash potatoes and brownies leads her to believe that she is an extremely sensitive person. Nadi's favorite writers are (currently) Tobias Wolfe, Lorenzo Thomas, Zora Neale Hurston, Kurt Vonegut, and Toni Morrison. About “The Sum of Their Fears,” she says “This was an amalgam of minimalist and literary style of writings. I wanted some lines with short matter-of-fact statements. Other lines I tried to produce mouthfuls of sounds and letters. I guess that can reinforce the context: a level of intensity over something so simple. The context, however, is always what drives the poem. I love the ellipses. It makes the poem a mere snippet of an enormous conflict.” Copyright © 2005 by Nadi Bishop. Photo by the author. |
