Volume 9, Issue 2
The Artist A Portrait in 15 Tableaux
He surrounds himself in beauty to drown out his feelings of inadequacy.
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Dream after an open-heart surgery, or how a breakup feels after promises of marriage
Your heart is a surgeon. / It makes an incision in your chest / from within.
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Revision
there comes a time when you are moved out of the lives of others / and can’t seem to inhabit your own — / you never knew your own, it’s true, / and panic…
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Talking Things Over
it’s run off its tracks, this train — / its rails could no longer stretch parallel / under a tongue too hot — / I only wanted to explain / and thought…
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And now?
You told me: I reconsidered everything, and it is best that you delete those photographs which have been tormenting you for fifty years from the shelf of…
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Lost Letter to the North Pole
Dear Santa, / When I was five years old / you forgot to show up.
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Darkness
stalks the books / Standing shoulder to shoulder / Like soldiers in formation / But defenseless / Against the treachery of madness / And the lights that…
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Bird Feeder
A cardinal snacks on sunflower seeds. / Two feet from the feeder to my patio table — blue, / with yellow chairs just painted by my father. / A year…
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tired, teetering between the tides—still life in Venice
From the airplane window, I caress / a little fish of stone and cement / emerging from the lagoon / a bittersweet smile; / so charismatic, nostalgic /…
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My Rolling Seas
My Rolling Sea My Rolling Sea / Alone I waited Aged I waited / for the sun to rise for the sun to rise / over the Sea of Galilee. over the Sea of Galilee.…
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Garden of the Fugitives
I. / Once taken up by homes, / this whole expanse had been / transformed into a vineyard. / The triclinium held a trio of beds / on which at outdoor…