Lisa Williams Biography
Lisa Williams (born 1966) is an American poet.
She is from Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from Belmont University, from the University of Virginia, with an M.F.A. and from the University of Cincinnati, with an M.A.
She is an associate professor of English at Centre College.
Her work has appeared in The Southwest Review, Poetry, Raritan, The Cincinnati Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, and The Hollins Critic.
They are circling circling wanting a way to the sea
the urge to spawn comes the urge to spawn goes
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If I could hold a fire against
a hemisphere of shadows, hold it
close, not so that damage
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The iceberg moves will-less
through shades of gray and gray,
a tower of clouded glass
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A tangle of white horns
bristles above the line of water—
You swim to graze, your pasture
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Because civilization is always
a retort to another's guts—
Remove the hive. It is in
the wrong place, nestled and humming
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