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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Lina Ramona Vitkauskas Poet and short fiction writer Lina Ramona Vitkauskas is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, Shooting Dead Films with Poets (Fractal Edge Press, 2004) and The Meanest Man Contest (mother's milk press, 2000). Her work has appeared in The Chicago Review, The Prague Literary Review, The Wisconsin Review, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Mudlark, Big Bridge, La Petite Zine, Drunken Boat, 3 AM Magazine, Shampoo, Bridges (The Lithuanian-American Journal), In Posse Review Multi-Ethnic Anthology (Ilya Kaminsky, editor), Web Del Sol, Van Gogh's Ear, Rampike (University of Windsor), The Mississippi Review, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and Snow Monkey. She lives in Forest Park, Illinois and she's the fiction editor and web designer for Milk magazine online at http://www.milkmag.org.

For Ira Cohen (Christmas 2001, 5:30 a.m.) Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

My head is a vacant apostrophe. The linen of the grass, raincoats on Christmas miles across my childhood backyard fleeced on its iced belly. The undertow of Ira— a flipchart of mortar sealing tablet doors, collapsing shut. I am floating up like a fetal parsnip— it is almost dawn. I am a spiny comb in this glass menagerie. I wonder if Chicago will snap to middle earth into the molten squash of soil, melting organs of strict, black keys everywhere. My cream is clarified. The windows are caulked with doilies. You are more subtle than gifts, a flecked, necessary note on my breast.

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