20 February 2018
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
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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