Spinning | Sandra Rokoff-Lizut

I got it wrong
spinning another way
to a tune
not in tune
with my own

I never understood
the spin
I put on those turns
yearning
for something other

I left this place for good
thinking that the
whirling round
that nuthouse called a brain
was in vain

I’m back here now
spinning slower
to less treble
to more base                        

Indian Review | Author | Sandra Rokoff-Lizut, retired educator and children’s book author (published by Macmillan, Holt Reinhart & Winston, and Hallmark Inc.), is currently both a printmaker and poet. Visit us to read more…

Sandra Rokoff-Lizut, retired educator and children’s book author (published by Macmillan, Holt Reinhart & Winston, and Hallmark Inc.), is currently both a printmaker and poet. She is a member of Oregon Poetry Association, Mary’s Peak Poets, Poetic License, Gertrude’s, and a weekly writing salon. Rokoff-Lizut volunteers, by teaching poetry to middle-schoolers, at the Boys and Girls Club in Corvallis, Oregon. She also studies poetry Oregon State University. Previous publications include Illya’s Honey, The Bicycle Review, Wilderness House Review, The Tower Journal, The Penwood Review, and Wild Goose Poetry Review.