A Poetry Syllabus
{An Umbrella Special Feature}


Joanne Lowery’s

poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, roger, Atlanta Review, and Poetry East.

Her collection Call Me Misfit won the 2009 Frank Cat Poetry Prize.

She lives in Michigan.


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Hag Math

Pluck one gray hair—ten more shall grow.
I was already an old wife to test the tale.
Actually, a former wife far from bald.
Many choices offered themselves as proof.
I grasped a silver sliver and heaved ho.
Immediately, new ones to equal all my fingers.
What a funny tuft they made.
To equalize, I continued until my mirror
revealed an aluminum Afro, a gray Chia pet,
a crabby geriatric porcupine.
When I shook my head the strands stood
too tight to rattle. Swell-headed I offered
my new crop to doubters: behold how
a yank increases gray matter.



 
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