Lynne Thompson
Unfolding Blue
Begun in fondling
Begun benign
Of loin—
unbid—
Of foe—
unbound—
Of bold
Of fuel
Fouled
Foiled
Fugue
& fine
No lien
No goblin
In union, un-led
In bed, unblind
Golden—
I boil
indulge
unbend
unboned
bluefin
Lynne Thompson is the author of Start With a Small Guitar and Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. In 2018, Jane Hirshfield selected her manuscript Fretwork as the winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. Thompson’s recent work appears or is forthcoming in New England Review, Colorado Review, American Poetry Journal, and the 2020 Best American Poetry anthology, among others. Thompson serves on the Boards of Cave Canem and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Begun in fondling
Begun benign
Of loin—
unbid—
Of foe—
unbound—
Of bold
Of fuel
Fouled
Foiled
Fugue
& fine
No lien
No goblin
In union, un-led
In bed, unblind
Golden—
I boil
indulge
unbend
unboned
bluefin
Lynne Thompson is the author of Start With a Small Guitar and Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. In 2018, Jane Hirshfield selected her manuscript Fretwork as the winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. Thompson’s recent work appears or is forthcoming in New England Review, Colorado Review, American Poetry Journal, and the 2020 Best American Poetry anthology, among others. Thompson serves on the Boards of Cave Canem and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Return to September 2020 Edition