Untitled Poem - Liz Mariani

Weather permits the unrelated to relate.

Codify. Water we can drink, I think. 

Try once to recall winter’s routine lake winds.

Originally published by Fortunates: Profoundly Bite-sized Literature, March 11, 2012

Liz Mariani (she/her) is a poet, editor and visual artist from and based in Buffalo, New York. Mariani earned an MFA in Poetry from Mills College. Recent work has been published in Slipstream Magazine, Queering The Apocalypse via Double Text Media, and Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age — Summer 2025 published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project. Find her at: linktr.ee/lizmarianipoetry