Four poems by Laura LeHew

& A COUPLE OF WEAKNESSES

​there’s something satisfying about wild turkeys
pillow talk & Doris Day
the pancreas
 
parsnips
purses from WalMart
platonic friends (though I am seeing this other girl)
 
divination in your teacup—honey and clouds
gluten free peanut butter cereal
shooting musicians
 
toddlers teetering down runways & baby cappuccinos
broken down dolls
the doll hospital filling with cigarette smoke
 
sea salt caramels
I have become accustomed to rejection





AGAINST DECORUM
 
I am not on the market &
of course I am simply not
 
dating Satan nor any of Them
though
 
their inner demons
are rather quite rakish
 
a paradox of peroxides, bald pates
pesticides, sociopaths, math majors
 
who have no real skills but still
jab jab jab my tender scars
 
what is appropriate AD
(after divorce)
 
there is so much more (to/in/about) me
than just the facts





AGNOSTICS

protection | compliance
non-persistent work space
& secure by design
 
as-a-service why
are men so difficult
 
non-disruptive
benchmarkable performance
data is available
 
minimizing the risk
the rush off a cliff
 
scrying for the other wing
Rapunzel let down her hair
during a boot storm
 
& before she put her lipstick on
you are defeated





GHOST RANCH
 
walk the labyrinth
between flagstone / river rock
prickly pear / fluxweed’s pale petals
mediations / compass points
heartfelt truths with stones
blue lace agate settles
in the cup of coffee
gusty winds may exist



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 Bio: Laura LeHew’s collections include: Becoming (Another New Calligraphy), Willingly Would I Burn, (MoonPath Press), It’s Always Night, It Always Rains,(Winterhawk Press) and Beauty (Tiger’s Eye Press). Lana Hechtman Ayers says “As dark as the reality of Becoming is, the journey is redeemed by unflinching examination, moments of unwavering generosity, and the faithful testimony of survival.” In her other life Laura owns a computer forensics and network security consulting company. Laura received her MFA from the California College of Arts. She edits her small press Uttered Chaos www.utteredchaos.org. Laura always thought she’d be an astronaut lauralehew.com.

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