WICHITA LINEMAN

is the sound              of my listen
ing of your song       ing is it self
sailing on time         serving to want
to wire or echo        to hear it again

MAKING DO

how do we               make it
do it                          make sense
we do                       make a wish
however                  make shift
we must                  make up
for the love             make good
of making               make do

Lou Turner is a writer and musician in Nashville, TN, where she plays music (Lou Turner, Styrofoam Winos) and teaches creative writing at The Porch. She holds an MFA in poetry from Randolph College and is the author of the chapbook Shape Note Singing (VA Press). Recent work has appeared in OEI's Aural Poetics issue selected by Michael Nardone and elsewhere. Her latest record Microcosmos is out now via SPINSTER and was named a Best Album of 2022 by NPR Music.