The Written Wardrobe: "Frock & Typhoon"

By ModCloth on May 11, 2011 in Literature, The Written Wardrobe

Poet Samantha Milowsky brews up a storm of dresses in her piece “Frock & Typhoon”:

The bodice, maraca handle,
the skirt in soft percussion,
dizzy whir of lavender
sweetens our millennium
leavened air.

…

Does her poem stir up any striking memories of dresses from your own life?

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