MEMORY

by Laurie Rosenblatt

 

A knot of lifted sand, a landscape
of fern-green marsh rimmed with spawn and pollen,
the soul's rankness as wounds fail to heal.

What lingers on the skin is love and sleep,
a hoarfrost of salt on blades of sedge, the space
he left cradled by driftwood threaded with seaweed

and old deceits. A rusted dinner bell
sounds the flats, calls to something shivering
that threatens to scatter and remain, estuarial silt.

Laurie Rosenblatt M.D. is co-founder and co-editor of LEON Literary Review. She received an MFA from The Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Pecan Grove Press published her full-length poetry collection, In Case (2013). She has three chapbooks: Blue (Toledo University Press), Cloud-10 (NAGA Gallery Boston, MA), and A Trapdoor, A Rupture, Something with Kinks (Finishing Line Press). She is grateful to the editors of New Ohio Review, The Common, Salamander, Kelp Journal, The Rupture, Dalhousie Review, HUSK and others for publishing her poetry and flash fiction.