Lana Hechtman Ayers
Red Riding Hood's Diary, Fragment from the Fireplace
Who is she, this once apple-faced girl,
who's fallen from grace?
I said three Hail Mary's,
the sins of the father.
I asked for forgiveness.
But what does forgiveness ask of me?
Lana Hechtman Ayers lives in the Pacific Northwest where she works as a manuscript
consultant and writing workshop facilitator. She is also the poetry editor of Crab Creek
Review and runs Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Press. A Hedgebrook alumna, Pushcart and
National Book Award nominee, she is author of two full-length collections of poetry, Dance
From Inside My Bones (Snake Nation Press, 2007) and Chicken Farmer I Still Love You (D-N
Publishing, 2007), and a chapbook, Love is a Weed (Finishing Line Press, 2006).
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