Laura Goldin

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Practice

In half light, Sunday afternoons,
Grandfather's metronome ticks on the baby grand.

Mother counts linen napkins out
behind the paneled French doors,

and Lucia, on the radio,
plays out her mad scene, endlessly,

leaving the balcony again
and yet again.

Laura Goldin is a publishing lawyer in New York. Her recent poems appear or are forthcoming in One Art, Right Hand Pointing, Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag, Club Plum, Tiny Wren, Blue Heron Review, Driftwood, Rogue Agent, and Minyan Magazine.