Lake Luzerne

let the tight thorax

abdomen and pelvis run their course

let the shoulders unspool Syriac

hymns, tendoned with the suffering

of Christ and Akiva, let the ankles fail,

let the knees buckle, let the dove drown

in distilled water, spilled on the living room

floor of the lake house

Josh Lipson is a student of history, language, and the mind, by way of New Jersey, Cambridge, Jerusalem, Istanbul, and San Francisco. His work has been featured in Homonym Journal, Burning House Press, Petrichor, and KGB Bar Lit, and is forthcoming in The SHARKPACK Annual. His poem 'Habana-Om' was nominated in 2019 for Sundress Publications' 'Best of the Net Anthology'.