In That Dream I Became A Stain In My Own House by Connor Frew: winner of the Writeabridge poetry competition 2017

In That Dream I Became A Stain In My Own House   I dreamt that I was bitten by venomous snakes   The first was a cottonmouth, In my living room   The second a black mamba, In my parents’ bedroom   In that dream I became a stain in my own house, A rejected organ   My parents watched crime television specials In place of the news - In That Dream I Became A Stain In My Own House won first prize in the Writeabridge poetry competition 2017. Connor Frew​ is an artist and writer currently living and working in Austin, Texas, where he is in his fifth year pursuing a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History. He is a Texas Exes Forty Acres Scholar and a 2015-16 recipient of the Susan Vaughan Foundation Endowed Scholarship in Art and Art History. His works and writings have been shown at the MOM Gallery and Dude Ranch in Austin, TX; the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY; and at the 2016 Unnoticed Art Festival in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Additional work has been published in anthologies by the University of Texas’ Analecta Journal and El Aleph Magazine