Poems and readings by Victoria Dym
Eve Edits
“Eve Edits,” published by Cultural Daily, selected by Mish Murphy, Assistant Poetry Editor, November, 2022
I want to live in the Garden of Eden with a different guy, not Adam.
A guy that puts me first. Maybe, I create him; maybe his name is Freddie.
I want the soil to be alive with earthworms, not snakes; the trees abundant
with fruit, but you guessed it, not apples. No good or evil, just knowledge.
I want another chance at paradise, to be naked, day and night, to be one flesh
with Freddie, forever honeymoon, forever young, no death, no devil, no god.
Just beauty, and green vegetables, blooming plants and rivers. And, goats
and rabbits, weasels and bats. No warnings or sin, just discovery. And peace.
And love, definitely, love.
Father’s Day
“Father’s Day,” from The Hatchet Sun, Finishing Line Press, August 2023, p. 11. (ISBN 979-8-88838-230-1)
This photograph:
black and white circa 1956
baby me sitting on my father’s lap
his hands under my arms
thumbs on my back
forefingers on chest
firmly holding me in place
white smocked dress
dining room table
Grandma Bungie’s Pittsburgh
Flemington Street, Squirrel Hill
my dad, white shirt and tie
suit jacket dark, rectangular
Bulova leather strapped wrist
handsome man, long eyelashes
receding hairline, 25
This photograph:
evidence that my father once held me as tightly
as I now hold this photo on Father’s Day
Victoria Dym is a graduate of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Clown College with a degree in Humility, and holds a Bachelor of Arts, in Philosophy, from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Masters of Fine Arts, Creative Writing-Poetry from Carlow University. She is currently working towards a Narrative Therapy Certificate. Her prizewinning chapbook, Spontaneous, was published by the West Florida Literary Federation in 2022. Two earlier chapbooks, Class Clown (2015) and When the Walls Cave In (2018), and her full-length manuscript, The Hatchet Sun (2023), were published by Finishing Line Press. Victoria is an improv artist with regular performances at the Commodore Theater and yearly appearances at the Countdown Improv Festival, and she hosts and produces Poetry on the Lighter Side, where poetry and improv collide. Victoria holds Laughter Yoga workshops and works as a patient actor with Nova Southeastern University, USF and the University of Tampa. Read more about Victoria in a 2024 feature article in Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing Magazine.
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