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Mary Di Lucia

Mary Di Lucia

April 17, 2013 by PBQ

Mary Di Lucia lives and works in New York City, where she teaches writing, and works as a developmental editor. Her poetry manuscript is called “Beauty Russe.”

Filed Under: Contributors 84, Issue 84 Tagged With: Contributors, Contributors 84, Mary Di Lucia

Mary Di Lucia: Policy on Letters

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

I want you to know I am unable to write back to you Though they are kind here There is no shortage of pencils or level surfaces There are no midges The ice is only merely bothersome No matter what you think, that I am cold that I wanted something else It’s simply that we […]

Filed Under: Contributors 84, Issue 84, Poetry, Poetry 84 Tagged With: Contributors 84, Mary Di Lucia, Poetry, Poetry 84

Mary Di Lucia: The Pleasure of It

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

We left no footprints because we cleared them off after us, with mighty brooms. For the entire second half of the expedition, we walked backwards sweeping, facing what we were leaving reeling and unreeling. The meteors also moved left to right, a tribute. It was as if we were not there, that is how there […]

Filed Under: Contributors 84, Issue 86, Poetry, Poetry 84 Tagged With: Contributors 84, Mary Di Lucia, Poetry, Poetry 84

Mary Di Lucia: Failure

May 12, 2011 by PBQ

You were not expecting it to happen so quickly; the whole time you were preparing it passed by your house on a varnished sled whose runner was an old rocking horse. The harness was your missing shoelace. How right you took the time to fret about the nature of the anorak and sought an inflammable […]

Filed Under: Contributors 84, Issue 84, Poetry, Poetry 84 Tagged With: Contributors 84, Mary Di Lucia, Poetry, Poetry 84

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