1.

So consider yourself kissed,
as the small spring rain
kisses the wide plum blossoms,
heedless, with no thought of fruit.

2.

So this is how
a flower feels
open to the sun,
when the soft wind comes,
and the flower bends,
and the blossom sways
on a slender stem.

Miriam N. Kotzin

is an associate professor of English at Drexel University, co-directs the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing and teaches creative writing and literature. Her fiction and poetry have been published widely in literary journals. She is a contributing editor of Boulevard and a founding editor of Per Contra: the International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Reclaiming the Dead (New American Press, 2008) and Weights & Measures (Star Cloud Press, 2009) and a collection of flash fiction Just Desserts (Star Cloud Press 2010). In 2011 Star Cloud will publish a third collection of her poetry, Taking Stock. Don Gastwirth represents her novel, Cutter’s Vision. She writes a bi-weekly column, "Second Acts," for The Smart Set.


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