Summer 2004

Summer 2004

Barbara Nightingale LIFE IMITATES ART I imagine you naked cross-legged - lotus position - stroking your pen across a page, long, slow scribbles - stopping to rub the sleep from your eyes. You are dazed - bewildered - such luck is not visited often upon you - a prize. For what? For being there, the right time. For the look - sidelong under the hat - the spark that flew home, the heat a sudden flame endures. For a timely end to drought, the addictive nature of love, the creation of life - from art.   Barbra Nightingale has had poems most recently in Tigertail: A South Florida Annual, Barrow Street, Kalliope, Many Mountains Moving, The Appalachee Review, and others. She is the author of five books of poetry, including Singing in the Key of L, which won the 1999 NFSPS Stevens Poetry Prize. Her new manuscript, The Geometry of Dreams, is looking for a home. She is a full time professor at Broward Community College.

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