Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags Sable Dress By Stan Galloway I’d never seen that dress before, so elegant, a backless, sleeveless sable silk that clung–but didn’t, shifting shape so subtly as to make mirages real and deft deception all at once. I smiled every minute of the office party, knowing you were there with me, […]
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Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, Jewelry Box Magic
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags Jewelry Box Magic By Phyllis Johnson The jewelry box sits, so many stories it could tell Like a scrapbook of memories glistening, shining, full of love In a gem-like form. A blue stone from a trip to an island, she’d picked it up, the sales person wouldn’t let up until […]
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, A beauty forgotten
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags A beauty forgotten By Lou Pugliese I make my foggy scrawl with an exquisite instrument, my Waterford Celebration The Clairefontaine paper gently sucking the ink from the fountain pen I’m practicing the Jellyka font–le Grand Saut, but not well Somewhere in this hand and mind is another “Always for the […]
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, White
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags White By Alice Shapiro I lost the perfect white diamond from Mother’s hand in the sea of hardship. How was it that I saved the delicate white doily, knit from Mother’s hand? Alice Shapiro’s most recent poem to appear here was Once More, published in December 2010 as part of Contributor […]
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags, In Pleasure
Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags In Pleasure By Nate Spears White suit, top hat, pride feeling higher than spectacular The ugly duckling has gone platinum Feeling gold Opening a new chapter with a silver lining Revealing transformation A new me On top of Thee On top of the world is he One hell of a […]
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