Footbinder’s Dream
Racks and rows of pointy shoes
shiny, expensive and new
teeth in a multi-tiered mouth
like the alien’s in Alien.
Larry O. Dean was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan, during which time he won three Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing. He is author of numerous chapbooks, including I Am Spam (2004), a series of poems “inspired” by junk email (his poems presented in this issue of WV? as well). In addition to writing, he is a singer-songwriter, performing solo as well as with several pop bands: The Injured Parties (current); Post Office (2001); The Me Decade (2002). Dean was a 2004 recipient of the Hands on Stanzas Gwendolyn Brooks Award, presented by the Poetry Center of Chicago.