Who and How

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george-ella-lyon-november-2014George Ella Lyon is the author of four books of poetry, a novel, a memoir, and a short story collection as well as numerous books for young readers. Her most recent collections are Many-Storied House (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2013)  and She Let Herself Go (LSU Press, 2012) . Married to musician/writer Steve Lyon, she is the mother of two sons. She works as a freelance writer and teacher based in Lexington, Ky.

 

Emily was
a body
when she
wrote “I’m
nobody.”

Now she is
no body
everybody
knows

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The way the flower
takes the bee

and the bee
the flower

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Her life was simple
at the beginning. She died
of complications.

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Her father
her mother
her sister
her brother
her brother’s wife
his lover
iron fence
white
room

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Poems—
star-buds
in dark
of brick
and martyr

Galaxies
spiral
through
the soul’s
keyhole

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