Helen Losse's Writings
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Poem
Oct.28.2009
Cracked Lenses
The rain had quenched the roaring campfire,
destroying all hopes of roasting marshmallows.
But the sounds that would follow were simply
October. Storm clouds arrived. Then the wind blew.
Rain fell in horizontal sheets. Hail came last,
destroying the objects grouped by the door:
Bruising carved pumpkins, un-potting the yellow
chrysanthemums, scattering...
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About Helen
Helen Losse is the author of Better With Friends (Rank Stranger Press, 2009) and two chapbooks, Gathering the Broken Pieces and Paper Snowflakes and the Poetry Editor of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Her recent poetry publications and...