Manly by Lucy Biederman

& when I get home from war
To be alone with my countertops
Her dress is still a little low mountain
On the kitchen floor
In the executive silence
The shiny leather night
Unturned toward
Maybe God will just give up & tell us what

About the author:

Lucy Biederman is the author of a chapbook, The Other World, which is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She has poems in the current or forthcoming issues of Gargoyle, ILK, The Tusculum Review, Shampoo, Many Mountains Moving, and Ping Pong. She will be a doctoral student in English Literature at the University of Louisiana in the fall.

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