Middlebury Bee Man Dies
as the geese start to leave, orchards sagging. The wind near our old stucco house two streets away, steaming with apples. The bees go on, the geese remember iced ponds. When I slept in the top [...]
Heron On Ice
Pale salmon light, 9 degrees. Floor tiles icy. Past branches the beaver’s gnawed, at the small hole the heron waits, deep in the water. Sky goes to guava, tangerine, to rose. Suddenly a [...]
Cameo Faces
a gone woman’s face carved into shell, tangled in a box of fake pearls, one jewel on her throat gone, a hole where what glittered covered her like a woman whose baby or lover’s been [...]
Lyn Lifshin
Lyn Lifshin lives and works in Vienna, Virginia and has published more than 100 books of poetry, including Marilyn Monroe, Blue Tattoo, Cold Comfort, Before It’s Light (which won the [...]
