Lisa BaronLisa Baron

Lisa Alexander Baron is the author of four collections of poetry including While She Poses (Aldrich Press, 2015), prompted by visual art and archaeology. Her poems have appeared in Chautauqua Literary Review, Confrontation, THEMA, The Fourth River, and Potomac Review. She is an MFA in Poetry graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches rhetoric and advocacy at Philadelphia-area universities.

Field Notes from Dunkirk

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And the clouds are refusing
to stay steady, they keep

getting pulled like a string
off the precipice of the page.

Shots of words and phrases
like these young men’s fears

falling out after
an anchor’s rasp.

Inarticulate fingers and …