from Letters Inscribed in Snow (III)

 
 
 
Ask a river      with shoes
 
Kiss grandmother       asleep
 
as ammunition
 
Then go and open
 
the gate                       ask
 
 
 

Laynie Browne is the author of ten collections of poetry and two novels. Her most recent collection of poems, Lost Parkour Ps(alms) is out in two editions, one in English, and another in French, from Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havré (2014). She is a 2014 Pew Fellow. Forthcoming books include Scorpyn Odes (Kore Press) and P R A C T I C E (SplitLevel Texts).