Poetry
Lawrence Bridges’ photographs have appeared in the Las Laguna Art Gallery, the London Photo Festival, and the ENSO Gallery in Malibu. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums (Red Hen Press, 2006), Flip Days (Red Hen Press, 2009), and Brownwood (Tupelo Press, 2016). He lives in Los Angeles.
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The books lie open and the books make sense like
spring rolling through its months. Then they roll on,
and then make no sense. The equator is a roundness
found everywhere. Life at the equator is fatness and
sleep. The rolling you feel is the rolling of whales
northward. Expectation is the expectation of
sunlight on a whale’s back, up from sounding.