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Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine, Plenty

03.24.11 Posted in Contributor Series 8, words to linger on by

Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine Plenty By Maureen Donatelli Those summer peaches were just perfect big and rosy ripe for feasting so I ate far too many sitting small in the yard small beneath the vastness of a flagrantly warm August sky while you stood swallowed by dancing grey shadows behind the crooked screen […]


Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine, The Omnivorous Restaurant Critic

03.23.11 Posted in Contributor Series 8, today's words by

Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine The Omnivorous Restaurant Critic By Neil Ellman In the end he eats his words when nothing else is left but syllables en croute sentences beurre blanc a bouillabaisse of mindless sounds homographs that taste the same– his bitter tact upon his tongue. Neil Ellman’s poem Horse’s Skull with White Rose appeared at vox poetica in December […]


Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine, Leftovers

03.22.11 Posted in Contributor Series 8, today's words by

Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine Leftovers By Michael Turner I consumed the leftover squash and onions today as well as the last of the Christmas turkey. Seven days into the new year I still consume your love but cannot savor you. You join me at dinner, noon and night in so many ways, but […]


Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine, Eat Merrily: A Little Girl’s Cacophonous Tastes

03.21.11 Posted in Contributor Series 8, words to linger on by

Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine Eat Merrily: A Little Girl’s Cacophonous Tastes By KJ Hannah Greenberg Stuffed children, eat merrily Rainbow-clad, troughs, Everlasting spangle. Singing, singing, singing. If houses were of bubble gum, Streets of sweetened salts, Oceans filled with cherry pop, Lakes of chocolate malt, Then Sally Saunders’ pillow-based Allergy, fitted beyond feather […]


Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine, The Grill

03.21.11 Posted in Contributor Series 8, today's words by

Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine The Grill By Harris Tobias The festive meat sizzles on the grill The sausage and the ground beef The chirping guests swill their drinks And make shrill, inconsequential speech The summer frocks the women wear Bare arms dangle like chops The children all agaggle in the pool Their innocent […]


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