“Lighthouse” by Molly Lynde


Bridge to infinity.
You point straight up, but
you are content to exist on the edge.
Lovers write their graffiti on you,
a living talisman of their wager
that love will last.


Molly Lynde is originally from Sonoma County, California. She teaches modern and medieval French in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and serves as editor-in-chief of Transference, a literary journal featuring poetry in translation (https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/transference/).