Laurinda Lind

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Poet

For G.S.

Soil kept him sweet
against the machines

so all the monsters knew
that someone else here

had a name too. We were
saying his mountains,

pocketing his mantras.
The language had earth

and air in it, which made
it his, though we never thought

poems would turn out
to be suited and bearded

while he salted the evening
with an authentic dark

that sank down among us
strong as whiskey.

Laurinda Lind is riding it out in New York State. Some previous publications and acceptances were in Ascent, Blue Fifth Review, Cold Mountain Review, Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, Off the Coast, Paterson Literary Review, Sanskrit, Ship of Fools, and Welter.