At first, it felt slick to the touch, like a slab of raw bacon, she told me. Then miniature bubbles frothed up from what would have been pores had the Bible been genuine leather. Someone suggested they safeguard the Good Book in Tupperware. How else to contain both the Book and its wondrous secretions? Like […]
Elizabeth Lockman
Elizabeth Lockman lives with her husband in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. Their farm is in the National Radio Quiet Zone, where they go about their days disencumbered by cell phones and wireless internet. After a fifty-year hiatus during which she raised their children and wrote prose, she resumed writing poetry seriously again in 2024. A number of her poems were published in the 1970s and 1980s.