Meet me at sunset,
where the orange light
washes over us.
Be still with me here,
before we imitate the trees
grieving for their leaves,
the grass waiting for the snow.
Hold me for a few seconds longer,
the way the branch
begs its last leaf to stay.
where the orange light
washes over us.
Be still with me here,
before we imitate the trees
grieving for their leaves,
the grass waiting for the snow.
Hold me for a few seconds longer,
the way the branch
begs its last leaf to stay.
Lynne Schmidt is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, and mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. She is the winner of the 2020 New Women's Voices Contest and author of the chapbooks, Dead Dog Poems (forthcoming from Finishing Line Press), Gravity (Nightingale and Sparrow Press) which was listed as one of the 17 Best Breakup Books to Read in 2020, and On Becoming a Role Model (Thirty West), which was featured on The Wardrobe's Best Dressed for PTSD Awareness Week. Her work has received the Maine Nonfiction Award, Editor's Choice Award, and was a 2018 and 2019 PNWA finalist for memoir and poetry respectively. Lynne was a five time 2019 and 2020 Best of the Net Nominee, and an honorable mention for the Charles Bukowski and Doug Draime Poetry Awards. In 2012 she started the project, AbortionChat, which aims to lessen the stigma around abortion. When given the choice, Lynne prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans.