| The Honey Land Review Fall 2009 Volume 2, Issue 1 |
How easily a loaf of bread
becomes a muddle of fish,
the fair fall from the skies,
mackerel and trout.
You have read such things
in the archives of beer–
a little town in Yorkshire
deluged by fluke.
What the whirlwind sweeps up
the still small voice strains
through a fog of no seeums.
Remember the actor who inhaled
a scum of gnats
and Hamlet choked,
gave brevity a soul
and then silence was all.
As for the witless
Polonius,
he lived his ever after
in a spit fog
like the preacher
who stole his sermons
from another preacher–
different denomination–
everything
even the stutters and the pause.
I wouldn’t tell you
if it were not true.
| Cloud of Words Lois Marie Harrod |
| Photo by Ulla Keller |
Lois Marie Harrod's chapbook Furniture won the 2008 Grayson Press Poetry Prize. Other books include the
chapbook Firmament, 2007; the chapbook Put Your Sorry Side Out, 2005 as well as Spelling the World Backwards,
(Palanquin Press, 2000); This Is a Story You Already Know (Palanquin Press, l999); Part of the Deeper Sea
(Palanquin Press,l997); Every Twinge a Verdict (Belle Mead Press, l987), Crazy Alice (Belle Mead Press, l991) and a
chapbook Green Snake Riding (New Spirit Press, l994). She won her third poetry fellowship from the New Jersey
Council on the Arts in 2003. Over 350 of her poems have appeared online and in journals including American Poetry
Review, Blueline, The MacGuffin, Salt, The Literary Review, Zone3. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize
seven times. Visit her website at http://www.loismarieharrod.com/.
chapbook Firmament, 2007; the chapbook Put Your Sorry Side Out, 2005 as well as Spelling the World Backwards,
(Palanquin Press, 2000); This Is a Story You Already Know (Palanquin Press, l999); Part of the Deeper Sea
(Palanquin Press,l997); Every Twinge a Verdict (Belle Mead Press, l987), Crazy Alice (Belle Mead Press, l991) and a
chapbook Green Snake Riding (New Spirit Press, l994). She won her third poetry fellowship from the New Jersey
Council on the Arts in 2003. Over 350 of her poems have appeared online and in journals including American Poetry
Review, Blueline, The MacGuffin, Salt, The Literary Review, Zone3. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize
seven times. Visit her website at http://www.loismarieharrod.com/.
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