“Six Explanations for Migraine” by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

A poem by alum Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (poetry, ’05) appears at Blackbird:

Six Explanations for Migraine
1 Demon
Flashing like lightning it is loosed
above and below. Weather, wind

enters through the eye, row
of trees along the road. Like one 

sick of heart he staggers, like one
bereft of reason he is broken.

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