About the Feature
What Lot’s Wife Said
Photograph by Daria Volkova
New Year’s Eve, 2020
turn back and
you’ll turn
to salt—
there is only ash
and the lick of flame
along your hip
the body’s a pillar
in darkness,
skin white as a moon
and a crescent of bone
like the arc of a bow
pulled taut
the sun will be new
and unwary
can melt a salt face
like the hoarfrost
About the Author
Jen Stewart Fueston is the author of Madonna, Complex (Cascade Books, 2020), Latch (River Glass Books, 2019), and Visitations (Finishing Line Press 2015). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Agni, Thrush, Western Humanities Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. A native of Colorado, she has taught writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as well as internationally.