LAWLESS
Linda M. Fischer
you carry it on your back grief pack the toxin with consciousness a leaf in your book the torn page consign belief to the faithless lawless rivers flooding in season being the burden nothing comes quietly wherever I look debris
Linda M. Fischer’s poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, the Aurorean, Hotel Amerika, Ibbetson Street, Iodine Poetry Journal, Poetry East, Slant (A Journal of Poetry), and elsewhere. Her chapbooks Raccoon Afternoons and Glory were published by Finishing Line Press, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.