- The Digital Writer  
 

TWO POEMS  

 


by Lynn Strongin 

  TYPEFACES

You pull out the tray of dawn:  
Goudy Old Style, Bambino, Mistral.

You are Bambina
your mother, Mistral,   not selfish after all:
rocks you       

Death takes it all
in stride       in high-laced boots:
Medieval world of carts                 mute singing.
        St Joan had her voice
        You your visions
        of healing toward life  O       or death:
        flying free-fall
        over Goudy Old Style, Schneilder, High Courier
        The frozen pond a mirror
        telling truth back to you
        now concave thin:
        bald
        anorexic:
        “Sun & moon shedding over you their blessing.”
        It’s curtains:          your challenge:
        How get the audience back after intermissions?
                Not just the ponds folded over clean            but everything. 
                                parks   rooms            dreams: hospital-cornered       done.




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YOU’RE GETTING UNIQUE TREATMENT
you deserve it
& you’re getting it
she says, the woman professor:
Got it. I catch the iron snowball & run with it from the stony cold plains.
The heron rounds in my dreams & slate-darkens.
O mariner
I remember the moment I lifted my foot the last time
violets by Dürer
blooming.

Lynn Strongin was born to chidlren of Eastern European Jewry, raised in an artistic atmosphere in New York. She contacted polio at the age of 12. Early piano studies led to later studies in writing. Worked for Denise Levertov, The Sixties, in Berkeley; moved to New Mexico 1971, received an NEA Creative Writing Grant and began publishing. She has seven books, and work in thirty anthologies and fifty journals. Moved to Canada in 1979. Lynn has appeared on-line as featured poet in New Works Review, The Drunken Boat, Avatar (Italy) StorySouth, Tryst.

She just had an anthology she edited accepted for publication by the University of Iowa Press, 2006. The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy.

See Lynn's work online.

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