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 […]
Lynne Burnett
Lynne Burnett’s 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 Poetry Prize and 2019 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook “Irresistible” in 2018. Visit her at https://lynneburnett.ca/