03/29/2014

Gulls sensing the fisherman
pulling the fish from the nets.
This is how I mourned you.
Swimming to the cave, letting the birds
near me.

BIO:

Lisa Hiton holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Boston University and an M.Ed. in Arts in Education from Harvard University. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Linebreak among others. She has received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize.
MORE POEMS:

11/11/2009
'Winter in the Dry Counties', William Logan


09/07/2011
'Definition of a Seagull', Jorge Carrera Andrade


11/14/2012
'Feed the Cassowary', Emma Sovich