Lisa Low | Late in the Day

Late in the Day. Poems by Lisa Low, selected by Ron Mohring as Number One in Volume Thirteen of our Summer Kitchen Chapbook Series.

Release date:  July 19, 2025 [49 copies]
27 pages
SOLD OUT $12.00 

Cover: Victorian wall paper (digital scan)

Lisa Low was the first runner-up for the Shakespeare Prize at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her poetry has been nominated for Best New Poets 2025 and shortlisted for Ploughshares. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Adroit Journal, The Boston Review, The Massachusetts Review, Phoebe, Pleiades, and Southern Indiana Review.

Poet in New York

You pass the thousand shops,
the Korean delis, with their bosoms
of fruit thrust out. After
the movie, you will run
a small, but substantial errand;
let your imagination drop
like a baited line or send
it soaring up to sally and tug,
like a kite on the wind. Above
the ugly glitter and the clutter
of the gutter; above whoever asks
with a whimper for your quarter.
Not stopping for her or anyone else.
Your habit to be abstract.
To leave the small stuff behind.

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