Lori Lamothe
Somewhere Not Here
flocks of missiles
lift in elegant curves
and the sky rains fire
onto a desert
hut where a girl
pencils answers to
problems she can’t solve.
Somewhere not here
twins sleep in unbroken night
as somewhere
exactly like here
every forsythia bush
blooms yellow
and the clouds go on
tumbling across blue
in all their airy complexity.
Lori Lamothe is the author of three poetry collections, Kirlian Effect (FutureCycle Press, 2017), Happily (Aldrich Press, 2015) and Trace Elements (Aldrich Press, 2014). Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, Kettle Blue Review, The Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Verse Daily and elsewhere.
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