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Poetry 63

Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton:    Hillbilling and Cooing (1956)

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

Olive gulps spinach when a hillbilly gal steals Popeye the Sailor away from her and lays Swee’pea on her shoulder like sacked flour, cooing in her Patsy Cline legato: I’m the bitch goddess who’ll break your heart. Kudzu blooms (this episode takes place in the South) and everyone, even Wimpy, drinks fresh lemonade. Olive’s victorious […]

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Nate Chinen: On the Eve of John Coltrane’s 70th Birthday

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

and what is this that what is what is this that this that holds us together keeps the morning after lover the springtime walking a fine line the other guy the someday my two hips the smoking on the bus choking like the too hip junkie the wise one the always transcendent ultraviolet incandescent the […]

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Amy Beeder: Blanca

May 20, 2011 by PBQ

She used to make him eggs with flowers. Wild white bulbs, pearl & ivory blossoms, beetle and night’s moth-mated buds that opened in the quick exchange of liquid yolk for omelet. Now when he hears her name he thinks of creamy flower buds unfolding sour & reluctant among fiddleheads or flame softening into fragrant oily […]

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