Shake the bottle of stars

Shake the bottle of stars
and see how it feels
to be a different woman.
Maybe I’m not a big deal,
but I like a good salad
with a little peanut on it.











Laura Garrison lives in Virginia and teaches creative writing at Roanoke College. She enjoys vegetarian cooking, horror movies, and weird craft projects. She is the editor of Jersey Devil Press.

See another poem composed by Laura that also uses the predictive text function of her phone, which has mostly been trained on haiku, speculative flash fiction, anxiety-ridden texts, and grocery lists in 7.4