Saturday, April 5, 2014

Caryn Lazzuri

Caryn Lazzuri had a great poem in Beltway Poetry here, in the prose poem volume 14:4, fall 2013 called "Mission One". It's a great wide short poem, a format that's often hard to get right, but her's is beautiful. I loved the sense of Gauguin she stirs up. 

Here's an excerpt:

A mountain shelter in the laurel. Tangled branches overhead and hail. Big purple blossoms in her hair. We do everything barefoot, me on top of her and the wildcats at the edge, urging us to jump. We bare our teeth to look more ursine, stick our hands deep into the honey. My love, her heart goes cold overnight, the sky backlit and disaffected [...]

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