One Night Stanzas

OK, the Featured Poet posts are back! And I’m really excited to introduce you to the poetry of Miss Lucy Baker, former Read This editor, San Francisco Beat babe and dear friend of yours truly.
Lucy and I met about three years ago on a creative writing course, and I loved her poetry from the start. Lucy is an expert on the female writers of the Beat Generation, and her work is very much inspired by the likes of Joyce Johnson and particularly Diane Di Prima. She injects a shot of pure California sunshine (Lucy is a native of the Lamorinda suburbs of San Francisco) into everything she writes and her descriptions and word choice are always sweet and elegant. Lucy’s work has featured in The Journal newspaper and she was also a Featured Poet for Poets Letter Magazine. You can check out more of her work over at her deviantART gallery.

Lake Windermere

We are sometime tourists,
forever wanderers
in open topped buses
tie-dyed amongst Mercedes’.
Stringy haired,
smelling of campfire smoke,
our pockets filled with menthol cigarettes,
tin whistles,
and skipping stones.
We find ourselves
basking in the glow of laughter
under the dripdrip
of cave music.
Beers and sticky chocolate bars
fill our tattered canvas bags,
alongside leather flip flops,
discarded for bare footed expeditions
amongst spiders
bloodchilling streams
and daisy chains.

Want to see YOUR poems featured here?? Send a few — at least three — to claire@onenightstanzas.com, with a little ‘hello!’, and I’ll consider ’em!

(Photos by kate y-n)

Visit the One Night Stanzas store! Great Christmas gifts for the writers in your life!

 Subscribe to ONS!

Tags: advice for young writers, featured poet lucy baker, publishing, resources for young writers, young poets

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 at 6:17 pm and is filed under ONS Featured Poem. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.