Lois Lorimer
Lois Lorimer is a poet, actor and teacher. Her poetry chapbook Between the Houses was published by Maclean Dubois in Edinburgh in 2010. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, including Arc and Hart House Review as well as in the anthologies The Bright Well (Leaf Press, 2011) and Connectivism (Variety Crossing Press, 2012). Her first collection of poems, Stripmall Subversive, is forthcoming from Variety Crossing in the fall of 2012.
Articles by
Lois Lorimer
Vanity Table
April 2012
From the moment I saw you—
your curves and secret places—I was held.
Reflected in your smoky eye.
You languished alone in the cottage
like private faces that once gazed into yours:
arched eyebrows rouged lips,
searched you for imperfections.
Tiny drawers held 1930s hairpins,
tuning forks in love’s symphony.
Carmine…