Quantum Theory as Third Person Bio.
This bitch has wings.
by Natalie Wolf
Natalie is a robot in search of recognition and three-day weekends. She’s a diamond, glinting on
her own finger, a comet spinning through the depths of space. She’s falling forever through a
latticework of rainbows. Natalie radiates Tumblr energy. She’s a Broadway show for herself
alone, one too many pop culture references, three bodies rolling away from each other on the
stage. She’s busy taking care of her inner toddler, dancing around a creativity candle. This bitch
has wings. Natalie is a dragon guarding a pile of Cheetos, wandering up and down mountains
frozen in fairy tales. Chugging childhood cold from the fridge, eating your eyes like candy. She’s
a peppermint mocha burning your tongue, a million glittery wasps flying at your face. A pack of
wolves at your heels. Lifting up your puny frame and dropping you off a cliff. Natalie is a
villain, Shego kissing Kim Possible like you always wanted. She’s a smattering of paper hearts
across your bedroom wall, last night’s bonfire still smoking on your sheets. Orange honey, sticky
in your hair. Natalie is drowning in her own words, bursting at the seams with magic and
confetti. She’s a jumble of disparate pearls held together with packaging tape, a goose alone in a
parking lot. Goldfish and gremlins swimming in her veins. Natalie is a portal to somewhere with
unicorns and cures for every ailment. True human empathy. She’s a sun, willing the planets to
rotate around her. A little cat, licking herself in the closet. A closed window, dreaming it’s the
crystal spinning in the breeze.
Natalie Wolf is an MFA student at the University of Kansas and volunteers for One Sentence Poems and Cottonwood Literary Magazine. Her work has appeared in The Hooghly Review, I-70 Review, and more. You can find her on her website (https://nwolfmeep.wixsite.com/nmwolf) and on Instagram @nwolfcats.