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Winter 2008
Dean Brink
Alan Catlin
Jim Doss
Darrell Epp
Taylor Graham
Ken Gurney
Michelle Lerner
Michele Lesko
Lynn Lifshin
M
Corey Mesler
Mitchell Metz
Bryan Mitschell
Maurice Oliver
Patty Paine
Jayne Pupek
Nic Sebastian
Shawn Sorensen
Lynn Strongin
Christy Tomecek
David Jordan
Richard Rippon
Jack Swenson
Doug Ramspeck
David Jordan
Micki Myers
Teresa White
Jeff Calhoun
Patricia Gomes
Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Patrick Carrington
Alex Nodopaka
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Patty Paine
Winter 2008
ACHE
for Jim
You on the hood of your baby-blue Firebird.
You on the phone saying "too soon"
how quickly it became
too late. You putting my photos
in a drawer. You not answering
my calls. You that dream I wake from,
the few minutes I believe
it's real, and all the moments
after, when I know it's not. You
that boat sailing away
just as I arrive panting on shore.
You the kiss I turned from, and each
stone in my cathedral of regret. You the hero
rushing into a burning
building the smoldering
embers hours later, still you.
A new life folded into suitcases and hidden
under a marriage bed, you are the suitcases.
You are the water stain on motel room walls.
You are the secrets I vowed
never to tell, then do. You are the dying
leaves and I am the ground waiting beneath them.
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Patty Paine is author of Elegy & Collapse (Finishing Line Press, 2005). Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, The Journal, The Southern Poetry Review, The Ledge, Iodine, and other journals. She is also editor of diode an online poetry journal. and is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Doha, Qatar. |
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