Poetry: Selections from Kate Lincoln

Mirrors                   

Mirrors have become       

my enemy:                 

revealing truths that     

I spend hours avoiding.

    

Haunted images are        

reflected in the          

many glasses.            

The person I see        

is not who I            

expected to become.

Lemon Tree                  

When I was a child,         

we had a lemon tree         

that always bloomed         

in December.

                

Its limbs would droop       

with the weight             

of frosty citrus,

ignoring Winter’s command   

to remain barren.

Oh, how I long            

to be that lemon tree.

suicide at 2:00pm                   

what do you do                      

when you find out                   

your Big                            

tried to kill herself               

in the middle of the day?           

usually, that’s the kind of thing   

that happens at night,              

you know?                           

in the darkness, where it can       

hide from the harsh light of day.   

but today, at 2:00pm,               

i found out                         

that my Big                         

tried to kill herself.              

                                    

in case you care:                 

                 she didn’t succeed.

Kate Lincoln is a senior English and Musical Theatre double major at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. In addition to writing poetry, she is currently in the middle of a large research project exploring Edgar Allan Poe's Oedipus complex and his portrayal of women in his short stories. She has been passionate about poetry since a young age and is hoping to release her next book, 16th Grade in the coming year.