Divorce Song. Poems by Lisa Hammond, selected by Ron Mohring as Number Two in Volume Eleven of our Summer Kitchen Chapbook Series.

Release date:  August 29, 2023 [49 copies]
17 pages
$12.00

Cover: vintage end papers. 

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Lisa Hammond is the author of three chapbooks: Lily Watch (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021), Goddess Suite (Small Fires Press, 2018), and Moving House (Texas Review Press, 2007), which won the Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize. Her poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, Calyx, Birmingham Poetry  Review, The South Carolina Review, English Journal, storySouth, North Carolina Literary Review, and Literary Mama, among others. She is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. To learn more about her work, please visit lisaghammond.com.

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Crazing

That crack in the rim
grew quietly down

crazed the once smooth
sides past recognition

spread wider now
nothing left unscathed

like a horsehair pot
left too long in the kiln

and when she traced
her finger along

the firing line at last
it split apart

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