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Lynne Jensen Lampe
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Poet. Editor. Late bloomer. Reader at Tinderbox. Recent: Many Nice Donkeys, Rise Up Review, Stone Circle Review, The Inflectionist Review. Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022). icefloepress.net/talk-smack-to-a-hurricane-
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Thank you, Sam

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tfw you have a poem in print alongside work by Marge Piercy, Ellen June Wright and other amazing writers. I can’t stop writing about my mama. In LIPS poetry journal, avail frm laurabosspoetryfoundation.org/order-lips#WritingCommunity#Poetry#MentalHealth#NoStigma

Cover of LIPS issue 59/60. Contributor names in white type on the right side of a large orange rectangle, journal name in upper left corner in orange type against a white background.
Poem by Lynne Jensen Lampe. Only part of poem fits in alt text.

Sunday Afternoons Always End

on a highway, pass or no pass. Today Mama packs 
blue pills and baloney sandwiches, leaves her clothes 
in the drawer. Tosses a collapsible cup into her 
purse while Daddy gasses up the Olds. We head anywhere 
but the road to Jackson or Our Lady of the Lake 
where they like to lock Mama on a steel-door ward. 

Daddy pops in an eight-track, belts trailer for sale or rent. 
She lips a cigarette, clicks her Zippo, shelters 
flame with her hand. I think about the school nurse
holding a smoker’s lung, asphalt in a jar.
Speed blurs honeysuckle and kudzu.
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Thanks Su Zi—that’s helpful.

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I wore overalls for years. I found some great ones eons ago from a company called (I think) Renaissance and they were in all colors with ties at the ankles.

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Thanks for replying!

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Hey y’all, what’s the difference between trope and cliché? I’m reviewing a novel in a genre I don’t usually read and am trying to discern quality vs personal taste. Thx! #writingcommunity#writer#prose#booksellers

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I had that same feeling when I traveled a couple weeks ago—a busy major airport, five people wearing masks.

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Lynne Jensen Lampe
@ljensenlampe.bsky.social
Poet. Editor. Late bloomer. Reader at Tinderbox. Recent: Many Nice Donkeys, Rise Up Review, Stone Circle Review, The Inflectionist Review. Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022). icefloepress.net/talk-smack-to-a-hurricane-
392 followers476 following117 posts