“Through Cut Glass”, “One Is Not An Alien Number”, “Not Far, Yet Wide”, “Grateful Among The Living”, “Tales From An Iron Climate”

Peggy  Aylsworth

doi:10.7764/ESLA.62063

“Through Cut Glass”, “One Is Not An Alien Number”, “Not Far, Yet Wide”, “Grateful Among The Living”, “Tales From An Iron Climate”

Authors

Peggy Aylsworth

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/ESLA.62063

Abstract

She had poured her few regrets into a bowl of thin-skinned pears. The bowl, cut glass, required the chandelier. Night burns its own dead wood. Her eyes.

Author Biography

Peggy Aylsworth

Peggy Aylsworth is a retired psychotherapist living in Santa Monica, California. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals throughout the U.S. and elsewhere, including Poetry Salzburg Review, Yuan Yang (Hong Kong), Beloit Poetry Journal. Her work was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize.