{"id":818,"date":"2015-08-20T10:59:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/?page_id=818"},"modified":"2015-08-25T09:48:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:48:11","slug":"poetry-lisa-hiton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/poetry-lisa-hiton\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Lisa Hiton"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011) holds an M.F.A. from Boston University and an M.Ed. in Arts in Education from Harvard University.<\/span>\u00a0 Her<\/span>\u00a0poems have been published or are forthcoming in <\/span>The Literary Review, The Paris-American, Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review<\/i>, <\/span>Linebreak<\/i>, and <\/span>The Cortland Review<\/i> among others.<\/span>\u00a0 She<\/span>\u00a0has received the Esther B Kahn Scholarship from 24Pearl Street at the Fine Arts Work Center and two nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Her current book manuscript was a semi-finalist for the Brittingham and Felix Pollack Poetry Prize (U-Wisconsin Press).<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n

<\/h1>\n

MOON CHILD<\/h1>\n

Like living inside an angiogram, I remember the womb:<\/p>\n

blood vessels illumined, eellike, hot to the touch. Moon
\nchild<\/em>. I can hear my mother, muffled by
\nall the light and absence \u2014 With you<\/p>\n

ataxia wobbles my desires\u2014haste to have what my mother had.<\/p>\n

I think of these things to tell you when you are asleep:
\nLittle pools of water filled with limbs. The sky is
\ndull, the sky in excess. I draw rings around your belly.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I do things to you because I want you to do them to me.<\/p>\n

In the morning, when you are still asleep, I reach my hand
\ninto your mouth, down through your chest, and I turn your heart over.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

“Moon Child” was originally published in\u00a0The Journal<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

AFTERFEAST<\/h1>\n

There is a deep-sea fish with two stones in its head. When you eat it, if
\nyou only find one stone, you\u2019ve killed the fish too soon. You will be
\ndoomed to seven years of bad sex. When you eat the fish, if you find
\nboth stones, run them under cold water with the lemons. At night, make
\na fire at the sea\u2019s edge. The stone you throw in the fire will kill the thing
\nit represents. The stone you throw in the water is the thing you\u2019ll seek all
\nof your life. What the stones stand for has to do with the fish you ate.
\nIn one case\u2014your case\u2014the stones stand for two horribly obvious
\nthings: love between women and Judaism. You can\u2019t know which stone
\nis which. You can only know by the fate that comes after. Because
\nyou\u2019re a bad gambler, you won\u2019t sleep tonight. If you shatter them, it will
\nbe up to the wind. If you throw both in the fire, you\u2019ll be a hollow
\ncorpse. If you throw both in the water, you\u2019ll live forever like this. The
\nday dawns, the bread rises, you were so beautiful, why couldn\u2019t you be
\nbrave?
\n—<\/p>\n

“Afterfeast” was originally published in\u00a0Anti–<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lisa Hiton (Poetry 2011) holds an M.F.A. from Boston University and an M.Ed. in Arts in Education from Harvard University.\u00a0 Her\u00a0poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Literary Review, The Paris-American, Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review, Linebreak, and The Cortland Review among others.\u00a0 She\u00a0has received the Esther B Kahn Scholarship from 24Pearl Street at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8422,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/236magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}