This Too Shall Be Proven Foolish | Miriam Kramer

Miriam Kramer is a poet, currently residing in High Bridge, NJ. She majored in creative writing at Pacific University, and works at a local bookstore. She is overly sentimental, and has been known to rescue items from other peoples’ garbage. Miriam also enjoys going on photo adventures, ever seeking out locations where a tetanus infection seems inevitable (fortunately, she is up to date on her vaccines). She has read poems out loud to friends and strangers in many parking lots all over the country (and also in some established venues) and is more awkward than you could ever imagine. __________________________________ Confessions to a Three-Year-Old     Next to every elevator   reads a sign, In Case of Fire,   Take Stairs. I was the elevator   set ablaze, traveling   out of control from high to low.   Full of destruction at the point   of combustion, running out of oxygen.   All I saw was fire, consuming   the living, turning memory to dust.   I was engulfed   with voi