The kid has moxie, loves to play devil’s advocate, grill his parents separately on what they believe and why. He’s going through life eyes wide open, the way he arrived—gazing through a sudden window, pulled from a dark room. Home for a weekend, he is large in gesture, first to put down his bags and […]
Lynne Burnett
Lynne Burnett lives on Vancouver Island. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies in the US and Canada. A Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, she won the 2016 Lauren K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit PP, the 2019 Jack Grapes Prize, Kelsay Books’ 2023 Women’s Poetry Contest, and was a finalist for Arc’s 2018 Poem of the Year and the 2022 Montreal International PP. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook “Irresistible” in 2018. Visit her at https://lynneburnett.ca/
Heartburn
What, my friend, are you holding so tightly in those clenched hands? Sitting down for dinner, the knife and fork become weapons, the chicken split and seized with a vengeance, chewed quickly, the day’s disappointments swallowed in silence. Later, under cover of night soldiers prepare for war, rebels that march up from the belly’s […]