Some days, I wear grief like a pair of worn wool socks. At other times, I lick hard the lollipop of grief—run my tongue over lemon-lime shards, the torn roof of my mouth. My mother misplaces grief— slams doors and cabinets searching for it. A toddler overdue for a nap, she whines about snow piled […]
Lisa Caroline Friedman
Lisa Caroline Friedman lives and works in Palo Alto, California. Her poems have been published in Boats Against the Current, The Comstock Review, Connecticut River Review, The Lake, San Pedro River Review, and Unbroken, among others. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and is pursuing an MFA in poetry at Antioch University.