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Steven Tarlow

Steven Tarlow: Night Soil

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

1. At 2 A.M. I slip into My garage and padlock The door behind me. From their wall pegs My garden tools emit A faint green light. They comfort me; the piles Of decaying newspaper Also comfort me. I stand a long time Over my plastic herb trough. Whatever is at hand I am prepared […]

Filed Under: Contributors 68, Issue 68, Poetry, Poetry 68 Tagged With: Contributors 68, Poetry, Poetry 68, Steven Tarlow

Steven Tarlow: Teaticket Road

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

The retarded boy leered at us all summer from his tricycle. He wouldn’t leave us alone. We feared him for this persistence and for his soft gray teeth; we loved him for the smell he carried of summer rain. As soon as we saw him, leaves of rain seemed to spatter the ground. Their underside […]

Filed Under: Contributors 79, Issue 79, Poetry, Poetry 79 Tagged With: Contributors 79, Poetry, Poetry 79, Steven Tarlow

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