Joyce Lott
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Introduction
Joyce Lott is the author of A Teacher's Stories: Reflections on High School Writers, Dear Mrs. Dalloway, and An Unexpected World. She lives in Rocky Hill, NJ. Her essays, poems, and stories have appeared in Journal of NJ Poets, Kalliope, Ms. Magazine, The Paterson Literary Review, The Times, The Writer's Chronicle and other journals. She is a member of the writing and performance group Cool Women Poets.
To The Great Blue HeronTeach me to stand alone in cold water, to wait poised for nourishment to drift my way Show me how to bend my legs so I move deliberately, looking neither right nor left Teach me how to swallow without chewing, to hold a fish in my gullet until its scales become wings Show me how to puff down into a secret so only those who know me can find me Teach me how to open my wings and fly, unexpected and perfect, a crone in the sky Joyce Greenberg Lott |