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SHARK REEF

A publication of the Lopez Writers Guild

Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category

Comeona’ My Kitchen

By John Sangster

Push back the chrome dinette.
Slow dance on my linoleum
(clock radio knows the hits).
Tonight we cookin’.

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Flat Poem

By John Sangster

This the
Flat-ass truth. Cruisin’ down
Flatbush when Boom!
Flat tire. Gets out, hears music—third-floor

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Guitar Propped Upright in My Study Corner

By John Sangster

Mother’s violin waits in the attic,
wondering if it remembers how to sing.
Father’s songs (It meant he was happy)
hang in the air.

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A Visit in West Haven

By Judith Miller

If I could say where I had been today,
describe a room holding its breath behind drawn, faded drapes,
hoarding its hope against the cruel demands of light.
If I could name the pleasantries punctiliously observed,

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Thank You, Miss Barney

By Oak Boesky

Thank you, Miss Barney
For not giving me credit
For those one thousand pages
For ten one hundred page books

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