Friday Nov 22

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Lucy Biederman - Poetry

Lucy Biederman lives in Lafayette, Louisiana, where she is a doctoral student in English Literature/Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana. Her chapbook, The Other World, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press and she has poems forthcoming in The Tusculum Review, The Literary Review, Ping Pong, Parcel, RHINO, and other journals.
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Late in Life
 
No walking any lines out here, as there are no lines to walk. Hills like lumps of coal mar the far-off; wind lays down the ambit of limber grass. The nearly nameless states, reservations unnecessary. Bends down. Whoa, snaps back up like a puppet trick, fingering some silt, on the special qualities of which he discourses for several minutes. His deep-wrinkled face is hideously alluring. From his big-brimmed white hat, his shadow swoops down and, beyond, the prairie sings like a seventeenth-century eunuch. You didn’t even know it knew how.