Write letters full of rhubarb
cocoa your nose
sharpen your horns
wear vim
seek incandescence
shred meadowsweet by candlelight
marry eyes to asteroids
avoid the puny
be steeplebush: wet-soiled, full of sun
render the weather
gusto the gloom
Handbook for a Thursday
Lynn Schmeidler’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Awl, Barrow Street, Boston Review and Fence, as well as various anthologies including Transition: Poems in the Aftermath (Indolent Books), Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books (Minor Arcana Press), Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press), and Nasty Women’s Poetry Anthology: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press). Her chapbook, Curiouser & Curiouser is available at Grayson books http://graysonbooks.com/curiouser--curiouser.html where her forthcoming chapbook Wrack Lines will also be published. The poems appearing here are from her most recent poetry manuscript, History of Gone, which was a finalist for the 2016 Eyewear Publishing Sexton Prize.