Lois Marie Harrod

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Sexing the Sky

The white hand hides
inside the deep.

The older woman
tries to sing Isolde.

You say I shouldn't weep,
sorrow destroys.

You say, but, of course,
we die, as if it were nothing.

Once I was skin and tears.
Before that, a clean parchment.

Lois Marie Harrod's 13th and 14th poetry collections, Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. The Only Is won the 2012 Tennessee Chapbook Contest (Poems & Plays), and Brief Term, a collection of poems about teachers and teaching was published by Black Buzzard Press, 2011. Cosmogony won the 2010 Hazel Lipa Chapbook (Iowa State). She is widely published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. She teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey.