ISSUE 4 · SPRING 2010
Copyright © 2010 Lois Beebe Hayna |
26 LOIS BEEBE HAYNA bones in a human hand 26 letters in the alphabet twice 26 weeks in the year she practices each day loving the agility of her tender bones her clever muscles which create a supple music half 26 the universal unlucky number her choice to stop practicing to let her hand rock the cradle to let it trigger typewriter keys result is simple as ABC half 26 the years not fingering the strings flesh resists muscles rebel she strives for the note. she wrings her twice-26 bones |
Lois Beebe Hayna received the first Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Emeritus Award in 2008 and was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from Regis University in Denver, Colorado in 2009. Her fifth collection of poems in print, Keeping Still, was released in 2005 by Higganum Hill Books. Individual poems have appeared in many print journals, including The South Dakota Review, The MacGuffin, and The Greensboro Review.