“It’s too good to last, this early sunshine in April,
this smell-of-cut-grass morning
and this body, with its mirage of infinite breaths,
its lie of immortality.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “Your Body, Still Your Body” by Donna Prinzmetal, the winner of the 2020 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize that was published in Vol. 32:2 of CALYX Journal!
Donna Prinzmetal is a poet, psychotherapist and teacher living in Portland, OR. Her work has been published in numerous small press publications including: The Journal, Prairie Schooner, and Cincinnati Review. Her first book, Snow White, When No One Was Looking, was published with CW press in 2014.
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Wow, Donna, this is fabulous. I love hearing you read it!!
Such good medicine as this day begins. Beautifully written and read. Thank you, Donna, for this poem.
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