by Lisa Roullard
i’ve carved keys on this downed cedar
and now i play
what my fingers remember
my body offering
enough loneliness
to sing the stream’s stones
back together
About the photographer: Clive Collins is the author of two novels, The Foreign Husband (Marion Boyars) and Sachiko’s Wedding (Marion Boyars/ Penguin Books). Misunderstandings, a collection of short stories, was joint winner of the Macmillan Silver PEN Award in 1994. Carried Away and Other Stories is now available from Red Bird Chapbooks. Lucky for us, Clive is also our poetry editor.
