Susan Azar Porterfield

Kaddish (for Lucien Stryk) That tremblingyesterday’s sparrow—out the glass branch to branch“like silly thoughts shared”—honeysuckle-leaf sleek and hereme tendering still—in time. Susan Azar Porterfield is the editor of Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk (Ohio UP). She's published a chapbook Beirut Redux (Finishing Line) as well as two books of poetry, In the Garden of our Spines and Kibbe (Mayapple Press). She is a Professor of English at Rockford University.