Mercedes Lawry

The Lookout

withered by wind,
thin trees at angles
odd, bleak punctuation

this brutal precipice,
unopposed and bare,
anchors skeletal roots

only familiar, hawks,
clouds, hissing storms,
false absence and echoes

Mercedes Lawry’s most recent book is Small Measures from ELJ Editions. She’s also published Vestiges from Kelsay Books, three chapbooks and poems in journals such as Nimrod and Alaska Quarterly Review. Additionally, she’s published short fiction and stories and poems for children.