Winter 2005

 

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Poetry of 

Nanette Rayman Rivera

Winter 2006

~My Husband~

"Ghost in the Machine" Jason Nunes






My Husband
 
 
he tells me to kiss his eyelashes
 walk him around the rooms
We’re ghost detectives, he says

he puppies his head into space
beside my breasts, his face
mocha turns white - coffee

is what I need now and a cigarette
 the pulse of sickness like love      
quivers in unreason

is not like death
it’s up to me
 to soothe his Abilify-soaked sightings
until he sleeps in my fresh vat of cream


 

 

 

 

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James Lineberger
Julie Walczesky
Kelley White
Lisa Zaran
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Lynn Strongin
Michael Levy
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