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Lynn Domina

Lynn Domina is a poet and literary scholar based in Northern Michigan.

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A poet converted by her own writing

Denise Levertov’s intuitive grasp of incarnation drove her politics, her poetry, and eventually her religious discernment.
Poetry

Autumn

Irritated by sweat and exhaustion, I heard without seeing an owl rush between my raised arm and torso, felt the whoosh of flight, ...
Poetry

Eve asks the serpent for a story

He began by telling her about rain, how some is soft, barely mist against her arm, how some days her hot skin will welcome its moisture...
Poetry

Leaves

I have been thinking about the difference between tradition and cliché, and about my father, how each December he placed a classic red poinsettia...
Poetry

One dragonfly hovers

above Presque Isle’s iron-gray outcroppings, its near wing a smudge of indigo at the edge of my eye, blurring like the shade of the dead friend I thought...

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