Denise Newman

Serious Faults

How easily the fabric of goodness is disorganized
uneasy chickens seeing wolf shapes everywhere
those who were meant to fly and don’t live under a littler sky
traveling on cruel inroads bumpy with hunger
and misted over.

In the devil’s cloak, in the angel’s knickers
the black wing of the traveler on a carcass
caressing the deed into oblivion, go on –
silently rearranging a garden at night
thistle, thorn, wild rose, radish
mean life rising in the soil.

summer 2004
 
maxine chernoff
jewelle gomez
katherine hastings
paul hoover
denise newman
dan o'connell
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aaron shurin
evelyn posamentier
 
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