Alison Stone
Turning Fifty in Spring
Purple splash of crocus, daffodils'
bombastic gold. Bright shoots push
through decaying leaves.
Everywhere the earth unclenches.
My body stiffens, out of synch
with such brash rebirth.
The widower across
the street who stoops to pull
a dandelion sees the lie
in all this spastic blossoming.
There is no starting over.
Bio
Alison Stone has published seven full-length collections, Zombies at the Disco (Jacar Press, 2020),
Caught in the Myth (NYQ Books, 2019), Dazzle (Jacar Press, 2017), Masterplan, a book of collaborative
poems with Eric Greinke (Presa Press, 2018), Ordinary Magic, (NYQ Books, 2016), Dangerous Enough (Presa Press 2014),
and They Sing at Midnight, which won the 2003 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award; as well as three chapbooks.
Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and many other
journals and anthologies. She has been awarded Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly's Madeline Sadin Award.
She was Writer in Residence at LitSpace St. Pete. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot.
A licensed psychotherapist, she has private practices in NYC and Nyack.
www.stonepoetry.org
www.stonetarot.com.
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