Tuesday poem #688 : Lisa Fishman : 1975

 

 

 

Bats become girlfriends 

(their fluttering sleeves) 

 

You know those two 

playing stickball in the alley – 

 

me & Mary 

in the twilight 

 

saying little

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lisa Fishman is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently One Big Time (Wave Books, 2025). Her debut novel, Write Back Now!, was recently released by 1366 Books, an imprint for experimental fiction at Guernica Editions. The novel has a connection to “1975”, the poem published here. Fishman’s collection of stories, World Naked Bike Ride was published by Gaspereau Press in 2022 and was shortlisted for the ReLit Award in Short Fiction. Her poetry and prose have been published and anthologized in Granta, jubilat, Volt, American Letters & Commentary, A Public Space, Best American Experimental Poetry, Aradia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, The Ecopoetry Anthology and elsewhere, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. A dual US/Canadian with roots in both Montreal and Detroit, Fishman divides her time between Eastern Canada and her farm in Wisconsin.

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