Lisa Alexander’s full-length book throttlebody is forthcoming from Get Fresh Books in 2023. Her poems have appeared in various journals including Tupelo Quarterly, 2 Bridges Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and The Burnside Review, among others. She holds an MFA in poetry from Drew University and is a longtime member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops. A little bit about the poem: Pegasus was open to the 18 and older crowd on Tuesday and Thursday nights, and as soon as I was old enough, I went, and I went for years after. It was a place so different from any other place I knew: the crowd thick and liberating. There wasn’t a thing I had to do other than be there, and that was a welcome respite in the hard business of being human among other humans. It was the first place I really could just be. Something to note: this poem references a line from a Sneaker Pimps and a Tori Amos song.