Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Lynne Knight

We must feature Lynne Knight's great piece "Strange Crossings" in Perihelion, issue 6 [vol. 2, ii, from 2000]. It has a great aesthetic that makes you think of Pound's short Parisian-style poems. Knight has a great sense of imagery and style.

Here's an excerpt:

Black branches, rinsed with rain,
their blossoms a cross of dogwood 
and magnolia, so bright at dusk  
[...]



could reach you? I might as well 
have spilled the ink on water, 
watched it swirl and disappear. Besides, I was young in the dream,

too young to know how death would take your name like ink, 
make of it strange crossings, unearthly black-branched trees

[...]

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