Lola Haskins is the author of twelve books of poetry and three of prose. Among her honors are the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, several awards for narrative poetry, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from Poetry Society of America. She currently serves as Honorary Chancellor of the Florida State Poets Association. She divides her time between Gainesville, Florida and Skipton, North Yorkshire.
Constellated
When the atoms in my body
return to stars
They will not remember
this five am
out my window,
neither the moor
asleep on the horizon,
nor, across her darkened hips,
the scatters
of bright yellow gorse.