ISABEL VANDER BLEEK
“I gave up alcohol for Lent / And took up cigarettes. / My choice was met with loud dissent, / In vaguely loving threats.”
Hymn Meter
JOHN PHILIP DRURY
“Red flecks erupt on ash-tree leaves / like the flush on my lover’s neck.”
CYNTHIA ERLANDSON
“My last red rose-of-sharon / Is slowly curling closed”
ALFRED NICOL
“He does not say a word to me / that he might not take back again.”
