Slow motion of childhood, eager summers, lawn mower growls, sprints under sprinklers, rainbow halo of wet skin, autumn tumbles in in heaps of leaves, winter snow taller than elbows, dances among flakes, icicle fingers, ears and nose red as happiness, spring bookbags strewn in the grass, all seasons flee later in life, fast forward from […]
Lana Hechtman Ayers
Lana Hechtman Ayers, architect of the “Severed Sonnet,” has shepherded over a hundred poetry volumes into print in her role as managing editor for three small presses. Her work appears in Rattle, The London Reader, Peregrine, and elsewhere. Lana’s latest collection, The Autobiography of Rain, is available from Fernwood Press.