What’s that? I ask. My husband has stopped the car to show me a tupelo tree. He’s amused. You’ve never seen an armadillo? I don’t answer. I can’t tell the difference between goats and sheep in a field—why is he surprised? Hunkered by the side of the road—a dense hump-backed bundle, black marble eyes, it […]
Elizabeth Burk
Elizabeth Burk is a psychologist who divides her time between New York and southwest Louisiana. Her three published collections are: Learning to Love Louisiana, Louisiana Purchase and Duet—Poet & Photographer, a collaboration with her photographer husband. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Rattle, Calyx, Southern Poetry Anthology, Louisiana Literature, Passager, Pithead Chapel, PANK, OneArt, Cervena Barva’s Rock Anthology and elsewhere.