Christy Sheffield Sanford

Christy Sheffield Sanford lives and works in North Florida near the Atlantic Ocean. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and holds a Masters in Creative Writing and Interarts from Antioch University. Her digital animations have appeared in Amp and Atticus Review and work is forthcoming from A Room of Her Own and Open: a Journal of Arts and Letters.

“Be Mine,” “Premium Assortment,” and “The Past and Her Muse: a Blazon”

I linger over plump, plush, push-up-bra valentines,
those with glitter and bling, iridescent textured papers,
laser-cut-love in plastic, wood, flammable, frameable
rice paper, limited-edition fabrications to rival-any third
world butterfly. Cards as big as a menu in a decadent
Antoine’s or Galatoire’s of 1960s New Orleans. Will
this memento salve an indiscretion