Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Southwest Review, The CincinnatiReview, Raritan and elsewhere. Her books of poetry are The Hammered Dulcimer (Utah State, 1998) and Woman Reading to the Sea (Norton, 2008), which received the Barnard Women Poets’ Prize. She teaches at Centre College in Kentucky.

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Spilled Milk on Banjo

Lisa Williams  | 
Issue 61.1 Fall 2012

when the dogwood petals begin to fall a glass of milk knocked over on the grass like the glass I spilled on my mother’s banjo a skin of change across the morning table she’d laid it on when I was …