Poem in Hobble Creek Review

My poem, "Chinese Pastoral", now up in Issue 2, Vol. 6 of Hobble Creek Review, available at the link below.  Check out all the great work in this lit mag if you have some time.  A big thank you to editor Justin Evans!

http://www.hobblecreekreview.net/issue16/lauren_tivey.html

UPDATE: Unfortunately, Hobble Creek Review has officially closed down, as of spring, 2014. A copy of "Chinese Pastoral" is available here on my blog, at this link:

http://laurentivey.blogspot.com/2014/05/chinese-pastoral.html

Poem in Boston Lit Magazine

My poem, "Hitching Post of the Sun", now up in the summer issue of Boston Literary Magazine, available at the link below.  Check out this great mag of poetry and fiction.  A big thank you to editor Robin Stratton!

http://www.bostonliterarymagazine.com/sum12poetry.html

Rainy Season

There’s a sick part of you

that looks forward to it

every season, these weeks

of rain, their long romance,

their sodden caress, as if

you were a sad character

in an existential film, moving

through the vapors of a gray city

in your fedora, contemplating

some unrequited love, some

quiet angst.  You smoke,

haunt cafés, a Billie Holiday

soundtrack in your head,

and you sink in deeper

by the day, as it never stops.

It’s the danger of succumbing

that attracts you, of approaching

the edge and peering into that hole

you fought so hard to escape.

You watch it filling further

with each storm, a lovely bath

of depression, and you’re so tired,

wet, beaten; so susceptible.  But

that’s too easy, and you’re still,

after all, a fighter:  You clutch

at colors, waiting for the water

to end, for a return of sunrises.

Tell Me...

Poem in Yellow Mama

My poem, "Pause", is now up in the April, 2012 issue of Yellow Mama, at the link below.  Some great fiction and poetry at this hard-boiled lit journal!  Check 'em out:

http://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id820.html

Poem in Red Fez

Here's a link to my poem, "Final Fight", just up today in the April, 2012 issue of Red Fez.  I love these guys--check out all the cool stuff at the link below:

http://www.redfez.net/poetry/1568