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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