Wendy Cartwright is a poet/author/reporter/columnist/weirdo out of Columbus, Indiana. She has had work published in Night Owl Narrative Issues 1 & 3 by Cajun Mutt Press, Ovation, an Anthology collected by Jimmy Broccoli, SPREAD, by Chris Dusterhoff, and Older Lifespan Vol. 11, by Pure Slush. She has been a Featured Writer on cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com and dearbooze.com . Wendy was also featured in the blog spotlight The Beat Poetry Must Go On! by Fevers of the Mind (feversofthemind.com). She just released her first volume of personal poetry, Everything I Said I Wasn’t. Wendy also writes human interest and news articles for the North Vernon Plain Dealer and has a bi-weekly column called Midwest Wonders in The Seymour Tribune. She has self-published two compilations of articles from the column. Wendy has also had articles published on businessinsider.com
Precious Things
Memories are precious.
Driving, CD’s in the pioneer stereo
with removable faceplate I’d throw in the glove compartment to prevent theft of my music box.
Nostalgia.
The way I can’t listen to some songs,
and how I can’t sit still listening to others.
Visions of times past, just a kid in adult clothes,
trying to figure out where I fit.
Smoking bowls with the hippies
to family night at the club.
Connections made with the misunderstood, misfits
drunken wet kisses and meeting in the morning,
if we’re lucky.
I was always lucky.
Thank you.
Fevers of the Mind 