LAURIE ROSENBLATT

FALL/WINTER 2021 ISSUE #03 POET

LAURIE ROSENBLATT is the author of In Case, a poetry collection published by Pecan Grove Press. She has two chapbooks, Blue (University of Toledo Press) and A Trapdoor, A Rupture, Something With Kinks (Finishing Line Press). Gallery NAGA in Boston, Massachusetts, published her collaboration with painter Richard Raiselis. She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and serves as co-editor of LEON Literary Review. Her poems have appeared in The Common, New Ohio Review, Salamander, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and other journals.

YOU MADE YOUR POINT

Seventy-mile-per-hour gusts 

howled and drove sand like pea-shot 

against the windows the night before we 

buried you. The vixen 

clacked and keened, reminding me 

I’d forgotten your ashes 

in the back of the SUV.

I turned to face into the winged-wind, 

a flock of furious petrels.