Voices from Empty Rooms

Gulls scream angry curses
into old fog
white and soft
as a bullfrog’s throat,
and the years bruise rocks
where her light remembers
the lost lovers
and the sailors
who searched for truth
along the ruin of her coast.

~ From Loraine Lighthouse

Bio: Lisa Lepovetsky has published widely in the dark fantasy and mystery genres, in both magazines and anthologies. Her paranormal romantic suspense novel Shadows on the Bayou was published in 2005. She earned her MFA from Penn State, and has frequently taught writing and literature classes for them and the U. of Pittsburgh. She lives in northwestern Pennsylvania with her husband and dog.