the trains
took away
the mountaintops
leveled
the side of the bear’s home
earth body
dynamited
& hauled away
the vanished live
in clouds now
how difficult it is
to start again
with monsters
building pipelines thru
your ribs
the train took
my baby away
Lisa Panepinto is the author of two poetry collections, On This Borrowed Bike (Three Rooms Press, 2013) and Island Dreams (Cabildo Press, 2009). Her writing has appeared in The Accompanist, Maintenant, Pittsburgh City Paper, Planet Drum, Red Flag Poetry, and more. She is poetry editor for Cabildo Quarterly, an online and print literary journal.
Dislocated Heart