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Post by MoonyLuna on Dec 18, 2008 11:24:35 GMT -5
Moles Constellations Archipelagos The heads of swimming animals
Umlauts Ellipses Dust upon a table Speckles on a shell
Time leaves its mark so quietly I hardly noticed
Until this morning There, above my lip
My Heart (Cut View) The picture lays my two-up, two-down as bare as a dollhouse. The mommy doll is upstairs, jerking the sheets straight. The daddy doll is at a downward angle, leaving. Finally the mommy doll leaves too. But I stay home. After all, it's my heart. However it leaks, however tightly its entrance has begun to squeeze.
I know my heart is only the terraced house of a family that works at the mill. Yet the longer I look out its windows at the star-swept sky, the more I believe that beyond all the burning stones is something grand, and that though I cannot say when or how, it must have come all the way here, because I feel it in my chest.
Copyright Lola Haskins
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Post by MoonyLuna on Dec 18, 2008 11:25:23 GMT -5
Featured Poet Lola Haskins
Lola Haskins' poetry advice book, Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life, appeared in 2007 (Backwaters Press), as did a collection of her fables about women, Solutions Beginning with A (Modernbook), with images by Maggie Taylor. The most recent of her eight poetry collections is Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2004). She teaches in Pacific Lutheran University's low-residency MFA program.
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