Lot's wife looked and became the / pillar of her community
- by Domenica MartinelloDomenica MartinelloPublished 13:32, Oct. 30, 2020This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current.
The Walrus
What good is a backward glance?
Lot’s wife looked and became the
pillar of her community. Orpheus looked.
Now his head sings on a spike.
I refuse to be useful only
in the rear-view of my strife.
Domenica Martinello is the author of All Day I Dream about Sirens (Coach House, 2019). She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Poetry.
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