Benediction
Bless the top of my head
My jukebox brain
My third eye, my eyelids,
Haughty bridge of my nose
My tongue, that old tutor
Lip, sole betrayer
Clavicle, you flirt
Breastbone, my wishbone
Lin Nelson Benedek
Lin Nelson Benedek earned her M.F.A. in Writing at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. She has had poems published in a number of journals and in five anthologies. Her first full-length poetry