Poet
Lola Haskins
| LOLA HASKINS lives in Gainesville, Florida and Skipton, Yorkshire. Her poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, the London Review of Books, London Magazine, The New York Quarterly, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle and elsewhere, as well as having been broadcast on NPR and BBC radio. She has published 14 collections of poems, a poetry advice book and a non-fiction book about 15 Florida cemeteries.
Spiderwort
each blue flower lives half a day
then becomes
a purple tear each purple tear
falls into the river
on this bright spring afternoon
our way is lined with blue
paddle gently such blossoms
will not come again
and breathe breathe all you can
* * *
River Bloom
floating down the ichetucknee
one march afternoon its warmth
a joy after weeks of cold
we pass four ibis so young
their feathers have not yet whitened
around a bend the scent of bridal
blossom floods the air there was
a time when i’d have picked
some of those sweet flowers and
breathless laid them in your shoe
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