Two Poems by Laynie Browne
Glow is Due Mainly to the Presence of Dinoflagellates
Stacks of profanity dry on newspaper while light disappears from eyes voices green unguarded cradle wolves or walk into symphonies repeatable by virtue of technology The wolves and the walking and the sun falling are never facsimiles though they resemble their sistersOf Derelicts and Wreckage
One card for each question fool, star, magician Who are you; we who worry return Paint what we cannot say love of the objectionable is another form of silence grown so many hands
Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, teacher and editor. She is author of thirteen collections of poems and three novels. Her most recent collections include a book of poems You Envelop Me (Omnidawn 2017), a novel Periodic Companions (Tinderbox 2018) and short fiction in two editions, one French, and one English in The Book of Moments (Presses universitaires de rouen et du havre, 2018). Her honors include a 2014 Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award (2007) for her collection The Scented Fox, and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award (2005) for her collection Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Catalan. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies including The Norton Anthology of Post Modern Poetry (second edition 2013), Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013), Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006) and The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008). She teaches at University of Pennsylvania and at Swarthmore College.