Portents
This year begins
with a supermoon
menstrual blood
Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach
with Russian chocolates
liquor’s pink haze
a dollar bill under the mat
with last year’s snow
still on the ground
like slept-in linen
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L Friedman is a writer of poetry and prose, a student of history, and a devotee of the Gothic and the Shakespearean. They live in New England and can be reached by howling into the void – or, more reliably, at www.crookedbutinteresting.
