This month, I am a feature poet in the latest issue of Muddy River Poetry Review. In their words: 

Elisabeth Weiss, our other feature poet in this issue, teaches writing and literature at Salem State University and North Shore Community College. Her commitment to poetry includes teaching in prisons, nursing homes and other venues.  Her MFA is from The University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and she is widely published in leading poetry magazines.

Visit the Muddy River Poetry Review site to view my featured works, or view the PDF here.

Lis Weiss Horowitz: The Bicyclist 

      In Memorium
      Ondar Goekce 1952-1995 

We buried you on the hottest day
while your children, impatient with grief
and the long ride in the limousine,
jumped through the fluid hoop
the sprinkler cast in the neighbor’s grass,
the sun directly above. The sermon
on how briefly we love meant nothing
when the priest in his Turkish folds
opened the top of your pine box
and rolled you onto your side,
turning your weight to face Mecca.
My envoy, who slipped off your bicycle
on a clear day without traffic, as you were turning
to your wife to say something, could anything
have broken your fall? Did you know
you were pedaling away from us forever?
She said the bike sailed out from under you
as if it had a mind of its own.
You who go before us, at the turn
of the block, a turn we all have taken,
where houses begin again after the marsh
where will you be this winter while we skate
on the strange calm of the time we have?

republished from MassPoetry Poem of the Moment