Laura LeHew
Sanctity
There at the lobby bar I met a demolished man
or rather he was a phoenix having already burst
into flames
into inevitable charcoal
There at the bar where no-one knew him
his heart consumed by a rainbow of sorrow
with a lock
and a thrown-away key
There he suffered
dusk into silver
anguish into light
a drudgery of resurrection
There phosphoresce pumped
torturous through every molecule
feather and bone
each beat so damned slow
There at the bar he was beginning
a mote
a speck
he was anything
Laura & Sultan
Laura LeHew is an award winning poet. Her work appears in a myriad of national and
international journals and anthologies including: A cappella Zoo, Eating Her Wedding Dress:
A Collection of Clothing Poems from Ragged Sky Press, HeartLodge, Her Mark Calendar ’07 &
’09, Pank, PMS, and The Syracuse Cultural Workers’ Women Artists Datebook ’10. Her
chapbook Beauty, was recently released by Tiger’s Eye Press. She received her MFA in writing
from the California College of the Arts, earned a writing residency from Soapstone, interned
for CALYX Journal, and was nominated for a Pushcart. She is on the board of the Oregon State
Poetry Association, the steering committee of the Lane Literary Guild, and she edits Uttered
Chaos.
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Sanctity
There at the lobby bar I met a demolished man
or rather he was a phoenix having already burst
into flames
into inevitable charcoal
There at the bar where no-one knew him
his heart consumed by a rainbow of sorrow
with a lock
and a thrown-away key
There he suffered
dusk into silver
anguish into light
a drudgery of resurrection
There phosphoresce pumped
torturous through every molecule
feather and bone
each beat so damned slow
There at the bar he was beginning
a mote
a speck
he was anything
Laura & Sultan
Laura LeHew is an award winning poet. Her work appears in a myriad of national and
international journals and anthologies including: A cappella Zoo, Eating Her Wedding Dress:
A Collection of Clothing Poems from Ragged Sky Press, HeartLodge, Her Mark Calendar ’07 &
’09, Pank, PMS, and The Syracuse Cultural Workers’ Women Artists Datebook ’10. Her
chapbook Beauty, was recently released by Tiger’s Eye Press. She received her MFA in writing
from the California College of the Arts, earned a writing residency from Soapstone, interned
for CALYX Journal, and was nominated for a Pushcart. She is on the board of the Oregon State
Poetry Association, the steering committee of the Lane Literary Guild, and she edits Uttered
Chaos.
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