Joanne DeSimone Reynolds lives in the Boston area. She is currently working on a chapbook, “Comes A Blossom.” She earned her degree in English Literature from Boston University and studied poetry with Nadia Colburn at Lesley University. She is a member of Tom Daley’s poetry workshop in Cambridge. Joanne is a Bagel Bard and a member of the Concord Poetry Center. Her poems have appeared in Ibbetson Street Press, Wilderness House Review, and the LBJ Avian Bird Literary Journal. Joanne’s poem, “Chihuly,” is contained in Dale Chihuly’s personal archive. Her work will appear in a forthcoming issue of Salamander Magazine.

SISTERS & SISTERS

Sunshine slices like a sterling cake knife into the lake

this, the latter-born time of the nubile day

Under the dock we hover like a bloom of sea jellies

wait out the fogies coupling

as they climb the sandy pine-root stair

to tip wine, gin martinis

We turn gelatinous under the cool rippling as we

uncouple from our swimsuits leaving them

to drool upon the long stiff dock

—Gliding away, sluiced by green-gold light, we are

deep among green-gold bosom-boulders

the bells of our silken heads, all propulsion

Loose as tentacles, we take in mouthfuls

saltless, and blow

until all around us is champagne fizz

Groomed by liquid beams, we peer with owl eyes

no vows needed here

–  Joanne DeSimone Reynolds

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