Linda Laderman is a Michigan poet. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Action, Spectacle, SWWIM, Rise Up Review, and Rust &Moth. She is a past recipient of Harbor Review’s Jewish Women’s Prize. Her micro-chapbook, "What I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Know," is online at Harbor Review. In past lives, she was a journalist and taught English at Owens Community College and Lourdes University, in Ohio. Read more of Linda's work on her website.
but I bought it anyway, thinking I could bring it back by blowing fire into its points, but not about what might transpire if it flared while I was holding it, shining through my palm. Then I showed it to a blue-haired woman on the bus. Why do I buy things that are dying? At first, I worried she’d be… Read more →