Mary Ellen Talley
Election Day
White pearls
around my neck
Red, white and blue pantsuit
My color scheme
is gray next day
Black pearls
around my neck
Mary Ellen Talley’s poems have most recently been published in Typoetic.us and Kaleidoscope as well as in recent anthologies, The Doll Collection, All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood, and Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace. Her poetry has received a Pushcart Nomination. She has worked for many years with words and children as a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) in public schools in the state of Washington.