Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 21st, 2008
“Hitch-Hiking” by Gretchen Steele Pratt
Gretchen Steele Pratt HITCH-HIKING for my sister I let you do the talking, knew it was your [...]
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
“Conga! at the Rio” by Veneta Masson
Veneta Masson, RN, MA CONGA! AT THE RIO She’s sick but determined to celebrate my coming for the second round of chemo. She stuffs her bra with shoulder pads dons a long gown and a honey blonde wig takes her anti-nausea pill. You’re crazy, I say eyeing her with angst and admiration but it’s clear [...]
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
“Sky Stays the Same” by Marsha Smith Janson
Marsha Smith Janson, RN SKY STAYS THE SAME Coincidentally the summer when the gazelles at the ecotarium kept jumping the fences most of my married friends were having affairs. We think we can but we cannot contain the heart. We continue to give it our best shot like the nurse saying roll up your sleeve. [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
SOME NIGHTS NO CARS AT ALL by Josh Rathkamp
Review by Sara E. Lamers SOME NIGHTS NO CARS AT ALL by Josh Rathkamp Ausable Press 1026 Hurricane Road Keene, New York 12942 ISBN: 978-1-931337-35-9 2007, 91 pp., paper, $14.00 www.ausablepress.org The poems within Some Nights No Cars At All are poems of distance–the distance we have to travel to get to the person who [...]
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
“Sustenance” by Roy Jacobstein
Roy Jacobstein SUSTENANCE They seem a little molecule of calm in a charged field of gray clicking, this raggedy couple holding hands while tossing handfuls of pretzel bits like ticker tape into converging coveys on Broadway & 43rd. Doesn’t she know they have the worst Glycemic Index of any snack food, even pork rinds? And [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
“Torching the Playhouse” by Mark D. Hart
Mark D. Hart TORCHING THE PLAYHOUSE Flames incinerate our years of studied play. It had been an old pig barn, and we squealed to have it as our own, mopped it out, washed the windows, drug into it desks, chairs, and a couch resembling Freud’s that now lights into smoke and flame and vanishes like [...]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
HALFLIFE by Meghan O’Rourke
Review by Greg Weiss (email) HALFLIFE by Meghan O’Rourke W.W. Norton 500 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10110 ISBN: 978-0-393-06475-9 87 pp., $23.95 www.wwnorton.com When you Google-search “Meghan O’Rourke,” the first result is the transcript of a 2006 interview with David Baker, the poetry editor of The Kenyon Review. The interview was occasioned by the [...]
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
“Barcelona” by Albert Haley
Albert Haley BARCELONA She was not the one who let you kiss her behind the fake palms at the wedding reception. She was not the one who went with you to Star Trek number whatever and your knees bumped together and struck intergalactic sparks in the back row. She was not even the one who [...]
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
“All-Consuming” by Maggie Greene
Maggie Greene, RN ALL-CONSUMING You don’t know what it’s like, bugs eating you from the inside out. They devoured any food I ate so I stopped eating anything. I’m tired of this life. I told my husband, “DNR me, I’m too old for any more of this.” I said, “No more.” So why was there [...]
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
“Things They Save” by Monica Groth Farrar
Monica Groth Farrar, RN, BSN, BA THINGS THEY SAVE Because I stopped to shine my shoes in the street with spit on a hankie, I am fine and dandy where otherwise I might not be. Had I ignored wet pigeon shit dirtying my patent leather, that baby grand split from rope on its way out [...]
