Friday Afternoons

- Eve Lyons

February 22, 2011

I look forward
to the sun setting
on Friday afternoons
A chance to put the week behind me
whether it's been
a week of success
a week of failure
or somewhere in between.
I look forward
to spending quality time
with my beloved,
and sometimes
with our other beloveds,
this community
I have tried to create.
I look forward,
while trying not to look backward.
Second-guessing myself
is what I do best.
I look forward
trying to find
trying to create
Sabbath peace

Eve Lyons is a thirty-something year old poet, fiction writer, and playwright who lives in Boston, MA. She has been previously published in Fireweed, Labyrinth, Concho River Review, Barbaric Yawp, Women’s Words, Woven, Sapphic Ink, Texas Observer, Houston Literary Review, Word Riot, protest poems, voxpoetry, Contemporary World Literature, and two different anthologies. She also has a poem coming out in an Poetica in the coming months.

Welcome to the New Vilna Review

*A Note From the Publisher - February 8, 2012*

Dear readers and contributors,

The New Vilna Review has been going through some changes the past few

months, and our focus has shifted to offering an expanded selection of

poetry, fiction and arts writing. We are once again accepting submissions,

and look forward to continuing to publish some of the most interesting and

thought provoking work in the world of Jewish arts and letters.

-Daniel E. Levenson

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

The New Vilna Review

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