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Five Poems by Jean Varda
Photograph of Two Sisters We were like glass and he broke us we were open as water fine as milkweed and he damaged us. I can see it in...
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Low Pile Fragments
Low Pile Fragments The words are plucking right there at my teeth crowded inside standing nervously like nape hairs that have known Fear...
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On Becoming a Parade Float
On becoming a parade float What would it feel like to live like he had never touched you? To live like he had never lived at all? To...
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The Hard Way
The Hard Way You never know people till they die you gingerly page through their privacy Those fresh, fateful photos: mothers in mauve...
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In Your Mind
In Your Mind A butterfly flits through a garden The rain nourishes the grass I contemplate simple beauty While looking back at an ugly...
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24 GOSPELS OF GORE
24 GOSPELS OF GORE Twelve Japanese soldiers knacked me in wicked sequence, and twelve more filed outside my cell, donning grins of glee...
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Phantom Moon
Phantom Moon When vicious sadness lances Spears that disembowel, My soul on which pain dances Emits a silent howl. But the moon to which...
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Between a Light and Fire
Between a Light and Fire Between a light and fire arose Your buried appetite again last night I found it in a shoebox in a poem Every...
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The Secret
The Secret The secret was to be kept at all costs. The judge said if he did it again it would mean prison. We wouldn’t want to break her...
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A Midsummer's Horror Memory
A Midsummer's Horror Memory that tiny house which once held grandma’s wonderful smells is no more it only returns from time to time in...
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Allaying Throes
Allaying Throes You and I, All the fallacies of young love Cliched excuses So many “firsts” Ponderings of existential dread “Why can’t...
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