“Good Enough” by Lynnell Edwards

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What BreaksThe food analogies come fast
enough: hot glass like taffy

pulled by hook and hand; the crucible’s
soup of cooked glass clinging like honey

at the end of a wand; crushed color
like sugar in piles. Glass blown

like gum or spun into cool confections,
sweet illusion of peppermint swirls,

frosted drops, molten core
like a butterscotch disk,

come closer and see what treat.
But mind your tongue

friend, this is nothing
you want between your teeth.

-Lynnell Edwards,
Kings of the Rock and Roll
Hot Shop (or, What Breaks)
Accents Publishing 2014

photo by John Nation

Lynnell Edwards is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop (or, What Breaks)(Accents Publishing). Her short fiction and book reviews have also appeared widely in such literary journals as Pleiades, American Book Review, New Madrid, and The Connecticut Review. She is Associate Professor of English at Spalding University, and prior to that, a faculty member at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. Lynnell is a graduate of Centre College, the center of the glass-blowing universe in Kentucky.

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