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Winter Melt 2009
Suzanne R. Harvey
Micki Myers
Daniel A. Rabuzzi
Bryan Mitschell
Abha Iyengar
Willie Smith
Patricia Wong
Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Stephen Drew
Alex Nodopaka
Patrick Carrington
Mannequin Envy in memory of poet and artist Douglas Gamrath
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Michelle Augello-Page
Cog
He says I'm nothing
but a goddamn whore, and it's true
I take his money, in the soft fold
of touch, I let his hungry mouth
onto mine, allow his searching hands
to feel the topography of my body
and it is a grim reality, I prostitute
my affections and he is greedy, he wants
and wants more, he is not content
ever, he wants woman, he will take it
when he can, he will take it from me
because he knows I have nothing else
and my own want is stronger
money, that cursed root, into which
nothing can grow, it unfurls itself as a
painful and knotted spine, that branch
lifting from the dirt, reaching desperately
and uselessly towards the sky
July
I love you like a woman
pinned to a carnival wheel
blindfolded, I spin
taut against splintered wood
my body is a temporal thing
skin, blood, bone
you throw knives
at the negative spaces
between my fingers, along
the line of neck and jaw
I hold my breath, I do not
speak. I don't want to break
your concentration
and risk a slip in direction
the sweat on your brow
is glistening in the hot sun
" I am a candidate for an MFA in Creative Writing at Adelphi University, where I have been exploring playwriting and fiction. Recent poetry has been published in Copper Nickel (the tattoo issue). In my work, I seek to find beauty in harsh realities, to liberate speech from silence and to elucidate and elevate basic human experience. I am currently at work on a collection of poetry."
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