Andrea Laws

set the scene
candle lights
illuminating dark
naked ceramic torsos
blue and white
a strange place to 
live and die the
unedited version

with a wisp of a mic
words pour out with
aching moments
cluttered by 
past assurance in
sanity’s living
releasing the id to 
set free the super ego

breathing
intoxicating
audience breezes
whispered secrets
once hidden
now shut up fake laughs of
hopeful sex and eyes provide
attention to the 
unknown question

Does she deserve an applause?

Andrea Laws

Andrea Laws currently resides in Lawrence, KS, working in the field of scholarly publishing for the University Press of Kansas. She graduated from the University of Kansas, with a B.A. in English, with a focus on creative writing, and a B.A. in Film Studies, with a focus on film theory and criticism. Her poetry has been published in three compiled books of poetry, and featured on twelve literary websites, journals, and blogs. Her influences have been from the masters of Gothic literature, but she would like to think that she has a modern voice to this genre, with her incorporation of current themes with an “old school” format. Andrea wants her readers to have a sense of longing and desire to seek the unknown and always want more by understanding what her words mean to them. She is a nature-loving, dark enduring, Kansas girl that seeks to break barriers of stereotypes.