January Gill O’Neil

January Gill O’Neil is the author of Misery Islands, published in 2014, and Underlife, published in 2009, both from CavanKerry Press. A third collection, Rewilding, was published by CavanKerry Press in November 2018. She is the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and an assistant professor of English at Salem State University.

Poetry – Issue 26

•The Night I Wore the Purple Dress

I was Chambord floating
in bubbles of Prosecco. I was
a scallop wrapped in bacon.
Sleeveless, with seams that contoured
and material that breathed,