a haven
i sit on your porch
drink wine on your lawnchairs
recall a lifetime of conversation
conducted over ebony catalogues
and letters from new york sisterfriends
this is your house
you said
come home anytime
the radio plays
in your windchimes
i mouth your name
cling to steveland’s melody
and watch a white butterfly
light on your chair
Copyright Jacqueline Jones LaMon. All rights reserved. Used with permission of the author.
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
is the Associate Director of the Indiana University Writers’ Conference. A Chancellor’s University Fellow and an associate poetry editor of the Indiana Review, she is in the third year of her MFA studies in poetry at Indiana University Bloomington. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and UCLA School of Law. Her poetry has been, or is soon to be, published in Crab Orchard Review, Natural Bridge, Fugue, and WarpLand, among other journals. She is the recipient of Indiana University Bloomington’s Creative Writing Teaching Award for 2005, and she has been appointed associate instructor teaching consultant. She received AWP Intro Journals Project Award nominations in both poetry and nonfiction, the 2005 Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Award, a 2005 Walker Foundation Scholarship, and a 2005 Diversity Excellence Award. Her first novel, In The Arms of One Who Loves Me was published by Ballantine/One World in 2002.
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