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Leonard Gontarek

Leonard Gontarek: from Economy

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

12   Is there a secret in the flowers? When we began, your hair, now black, was blonde. You talked about the desire for knowledge. You talked about it endlessly. You looked up the name of the flower in a dictionary.       13   Is there a secret in the cemetery? Yellow leaves […]

Filed Under: Contributors 86, Issue 86, Poetry, Poetry 86 Tagged With: Contributors 86, Leonard Gontarek, Poetry, Poetry 86

Leonard Gontarek: from Green

March 29, 2013 by PBQ

5 There is a creek that curves past the Rose Funeral Home carrying dusk & oil & pieces of purple light & soggy leaves from plane trees.   How are you not seeing this?   The current is here outside the fourth story in the sycamores. A clear & different air that does not match […]

Filed Under: Contributors 86, Issue 86, Poetry, Poetry 86 Tagged With: Contributors 86, Leonard Gontarek, Poetry, Poetry 86

Leonard Gontarek

February 14, 2013 by PBQ

Leonard Gontarek’s books of poems include, He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs, Déjà vu Diner, and Zen For Beginners. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Field, Verse, Fence, Handsome, The Awl, and The Best American Poetry. He was the 2011 Philadelphia Literary Death Match Champion. He is a foremost translator […]

Filed Under: Contributors 86, Contributors 87, Contributors 91, Issue 91 Tagged With: Contributors, Contributors 86, Contributors 87, Contributors 91, Leonard Gontarek

Leonard Gontarek: from Purple

February 13, 2013 by PBQ

The daffodils & tulips are red & yellow, purple.

Filed Under: Contributors 87, Issue 87, Poetry, Poetry 87 Tagged With: Contributors 87, Leonard Gontarek, Poetry, Poetry 87

Leonard Gontarek: Home

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

You are crying for something in the past. Fair enough. Your mother is dead here. A praying mantis eats through a leaf. They’ve changed over the streetlights to the safer, apricot-hazed ones. Bang your fist on my heart if you understand. Raunchy, whispering ghost, one streetlight on earth, out. The maples & moving clouds go […]

Filed Under: Contributors 68, Issue 68, Poetry, Poetry 68 Tagged With: Contributors 68, Leonard Gontarek, Poetry, Poetry 68

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