A Book to a Scholar
Lindsey Wayland | Poetry
I wake with my spine bent,
marred with wear, though loved
and eared, and to this I say:
open me, open me again,
as a woman might,
after decades with her lover
on the first unfogged day
of spring, pull the cover back.
Lindsey Wayland is a poet, calligrapher, and researcher with an MFA in poetry from Pacific University. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Amsterdam Review, the Haiku Society of America, and others. Wayland was a finalist for the 2024 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry by New Letters. A native Texan, she lives with her husband and three children in Port Townsend, Washington. Find her online at https://www.lindseywayland.com.