The Johnson Girls | Carol Berg

Carol Berg’s poems are forthcoming or in decomP, Sou’wester, The Journal, Spillway, Redactions, Radar Poetry, Verse Wisconsin, and in the anthologies Forgotten Women, A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems and Bigger Than They Appear: An Anthology of Very Small Poems. Her chapbook, Her Vena Amoris (Red Bird Chapbooks), is available and her chapbooks, Ophelia Unraveling and The Ornithologist Poems are available from dancing girl press. She was winner of a scholarship to Poets on the Coast and a recipient of a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.     The Johnson Girls’ White Monte Carlo SpeaksWhat speed limits? There are no limits when the girls were chasing Cassiopeiaor pouring vodka in the Little Dipper orstealing Orion’s belt. I was their white bat hauling them into the nervous sky with my wings but their quarrellings hindered my echolocation—arguing over who would rideTaurus first. They had no sense of gradual,the pedal always pressed to the fl