Yellow Bowl

Rachel Contreni Flynn 12 April 09

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Yellow Bowl

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If light pours like water into the kitchen where I sway with my tired children, if the rug beneath us is woven with tough flowers, and the yellow bowl on the table rests with the sweet heftof fruit, the sun-warmed plums, if my body curves over the babies, and if I am singing, then loneliness has lost its shape, and this quiet is only quiet.

Rachel Contreni FlynnRachel Contreni Flynn was born outside Paris, grew up in a small Indiana farming town and now teaches poetry and practices law near Chicago. She studied history and journalism at Indiana University, and obtained her law degree from Loyola University in Chicago. She is a corporate attorney for a Fortune 500 company, specializing in employment law. She received her MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2001. Her work has appeared in Barrow Street, Florida Review, Epoch, Washington Square, Mississippi Review, and Forklift, Ohio. In 2003, Flynn received an Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council and her work was selected by Stephen Dunn as winner of the 2003 Dorset Prize. Her first book, Ice, Mouth, Song is scheduled for publication by Tupelo Press. Flynn lives in Mundelein, Illinois with her husband and daughter.

Poet information: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/29-1/flynn.html

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