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Wreath

Lena Zycinsky

is one of those words. 


Its image is always daunting. 

Not the welcome-into-my-home kind, 

but the final adieu. I thus rhyme it with death 

when I know it doesn’t. 


Walking in Chelsea with a friend, 

from a similar background, I pointed 

at a white ribbon wreathing 

a house. “Must be a murder 

scene,” we concluded instinctively 

stepping away.


(The note in the corner advised to do just that, 

but because of fresh paint.)


Lena Zycinsky is a poet and artist whose work appeared in the New York Times, Poetry Archive, Consequence Forum, among other places. Author of numerous books and shows abroad, she holds a BA in English and is currently a low-residency MFA student at NYU in Paris. Born in Belarus, Lena lived in the USA and Greece, and now resides in London.

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