by Laura Lentz | Oct 18, 2021 | OXYGEN: Poetry for Survival & Thriving, Uncategorized
I do not care if you only come to me in a cloud. I would be happy to have you shaping yourself over my house, over my long hike, to sit at the table with you on the other side of the roof becoming something else. Miss you as a baby dinosaur, as elephant, as bunny....
by Laura Lentz | Oct 17, 2021 | I AM THE HERO OF MY JOURNEY, OXYGEN: Poetry for Survival & Thriving, Uncategorized, WRITING AT RED LIGHTS
L. couldn’t find her voice to tell us that awful thing had happened to her. We were all twelve, but L. had breasts while Val and I waited for our lives to begin by willing ours to grow. When L. walked into our homes, our brothers stared and our fathers looked the...
by Laura Lentz | Sep 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
A new girl showed up at our school. She was a farm girl and wore the same dress – blue flowers and a collar. Maybe it wasn’t the same dress, maybe her grandmother got a deal on fabric and made the same dress five times. She was fat against my disappearing skin on...
by Laura Lentz | May 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
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by Laura Lentz | Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
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by Laura Lentz | Feb 18, 2021 | I AM THE HERO OF MY JOURNEY, Uncategorized
I dreamt last night the pandemic was over, but then the ash fell like dancing rain, and then we let our tongues rake the air for the water that followed, and there were men and women, together again, like before we knew the word other. There was a hush over the world,...
