Los Angeles Poet Society presents:
December Poetry Challenge
Where Poetry Lives
since 2009
Loretta Oleck
Poet
Loretta Oleck ‘s chapbook, Songs from the Black Hole was released by FinishingLine Press. She was nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Poetry Prize, and her poetry and photography have been published in The Stockholm Review of Literature, The Adirondack Review, The Missing Slate, Obsidian Literature, Black Lawrence Press, So to Speak: Feminist Journal of Language and Art, Right Hand Pointing, Feminist Studies, among numerous others.
Book:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/songs-from-the-black-hole-by-loretta-oleck/
in the right light
he feeds me cake while the baby sleeps
on my breast in a shaft of light
streaming through our basement window
the only light that ever enters
from 11:04 to 11:11 every morning
on the dot
unlikely rays finding their way
into the narrowest alley dividing
our basement buried beneath an old pencil
factory across but spitting distance
from porn toy manufacturers
the baby stirs and he rubs her back
in circles till she coos and purrs
then he leans over to kiss my forehead
letting his lips slide down the side
of my nose down to the random cake crumb
stuck to the corner of my rosebud lips
shining in the seven minute ribbon
of a springtime sun-stream
when our family appears
to be nothing
less than perfect.
(c) 2017 Loretta Oleck