Lisa Alexander Baron
Pompeii
She shouted to her daughter then
her son before the vapors
before her body cut-off
a last swerve toward a milky
pillar brush against a sea-blue mosaic
glimpse of a dolphin arcing in
a fresco before her eyes shut
cut-out this maternal body
in an ash bed receding into
a hard mold a sculpture still
pulsing with the startle of separation
with the shock of silence
after
Bio
Lisa Alexander Baron is the author of 3 collections of poetry including Reading the Alphabet of Trees (2007) and Sting and Tell (2011). She most enjoys writing in response to paintings, sculpture, or artifacts. Her ekphrastic poems have recently appeared in Chautauqua Literary Review, Confrontation and The Maier Museum of Art website. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches college composition and speech in the Philadelphia area.