Lizzie Skurnick

LIZZIE SKURNICK {[email protected]} has published po￾etry in Barrow Street, Daily Intel, and Morning Edition, among others. A recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, Ucross, the VCCA, and many other residencies, she is the author of a poetry collection, Check-In (Pittsburgh, Pa., Caketrain, 2005), and of Shelf Discovery (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), a memoir of teen reading. She lives in Jersey City.

Internal Affairs

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 4

You’d like to maintain innocence— 
The mushroom path of fingerprints 

Impressing your distinct presence 
Now entered into evidence;

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Blue Glass

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 4

Of course that’s seen
behind a screen. The lake
by day is patternless gray,

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