
Ruby Read is a New England writer that has only recently pursued her passions for literature. After a decade of working as a manufacturing engineer for a cytometry company, she is diving head first into the world of poetry. Ruby Read is a refreshing new voice, that speaks with a bluntness towards the realities of the status quo.
Belles Behest
I wake to clanging bells behest and rush to places I detest I pour my roaring youth away entrapped in "no" from yesterday to know thyself is just a con I knew her once and now she's gone the same paths as the day before I walk today and feel unsure
Manic Kin
I sought to find a better way to say what plagued my mind and dragged my health astray yet far away my thoughts have all resigned such ill defined confines that mar their stay there is no hope that one can beat the grind for dreams elope and quickly fall behind the mice are blind to emphasize the trope we know the slope yet feel so uninclined we can't begin for fear of changing scope we bare and grin and tighten off the rope we rape and grope and saunter in our sin we sit and spin and caution how to cope in disarray we scream above the din how unrefined we all are from within what microscope could sanctify this skin my manic kin we are but mannequin