She defies the odds, monocarpic shallow roots set down high unsheltered in Andean Mountains forming leaf rosette ten feet wide lined with thorns’ protection of inflorescence towering into thirty-foot-tall stalk of 30,000 flowers once-in-a-lifetime emergence from soil’s globe of leaves luring hummingbirds before six million seeds to fall by forgotten winds with a trunk a […]
Lynne Goldsmith
Lynne Goldsmith’s forthcoming poetry book, Secondary Cicatrices, won the Halcyon Poetry Contest and will be published by Middle Creek Publishing. Her poetry has been published in Spillway, Red Owl Magazine, Soul Fountain, and Geronimo, among others. She has been a semifinalist in The Nation for the Discovery Poetry Contest.