Blackness Slips Through Sundays

posted Jul 7, 2009

A mirror cannot speak truth

Just as a woman’s face masks
a madness

The man in the mug shot
Could be anyone’s husband, friend, father, —

The woman hides behind
fiction

Erika Lutzner, a former chef, is pursuing an MFA in poetry from New England College while holding Upstairs At Erika's, a monthly writer's salon and running an online journal, Scapegoat Review.

She has published in Wicked Alice and Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, and has pieces coming out in Ping Pong, Naugatuck River Review, and web del sol. She lives in Brooklyn with her eighteen year-old cat, Kerouac, and is working on a memoir.

We’ve published two more poems by Lutzner: “The Little Things” and “Cambodia:.”