In the beginning, there’s something to hold on to.
Fire in the Old Testament or other myths.
Or just the facts about death:
We all dream of the house burning down
or a tornado, tidal wave, events extreme and real.
We remember the trauma of elders
on the cellular level. We know all
our parents experienced before us.
The flashing Christmas lights cycling through
different modes: slow burn, bright flash,
steady, choreographed in parallel
for attention, pleasure, warm feeling. Memory
turns on in midwinter. Is not how we’d like it to be.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 27, Issue 5.
Anne Lucas’s poetry has appeared in The Avalon Literary Review, Abstract Magazine, Cleaver, Timber, The Mojave River Review, The Ekphrastic Review, and Jenny, among other journals and anthologies. Anne’s peer-reviewed scholarship on early twentieth-century graphic memoir appeared recently in Assay: a Journal of Nonfiction Studies. They have been a recipient of residencies and scholarships from Sundress Academy for the Arts, MMLA, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Lucas is a doctoral teaching fellow in literature at Kent State University and is a co-founding editor of Kent State’s Haymaker Literary Journal.
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