JERSEYWORKS POEMS SUMMER 2010
Linda Ann Strang, Sandy Green, Hugh Fox, Abigale Louise LeCavalier |
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My nightmare is like a message
Her body's foam splashed
God's medium, she is larger
Her wisdom's all left-handed.
Second sight grooms her.
and also roaring dust,
My nightmare's shoes were forged
Indeed, her trappings are spurs still
She rests with the homeless
in the desecrated
and her measures are the overreaching
I lie down to a tango
filtered through a leopard:
honey made of flute;
colt with a secret
She stands and delivers. Consider her hands up.
hieroglyphics in a storm and it's averse
birthmark - you know the one - that gingery
Take her memories of bulldozers in Budapest
in pirouette or waltz, the limp that follows her
at the Turkish baths where girls rise up
for a vernissage - and disappear into an apse
hearing aid of the muse - Who goes there? -
She has an underwriter who works all night.
Self's reactionary, a mere mirage. Come on,
He stomps into the lab,
As he turns away,
They crash to the floor
His lab partner
It fluttered like someone
We'd left the grocery bags
Yesterday morning,
It balanced
Was it full of coffee,
As I sped by,
afraid to see it spill
Was she pretending it was
Or, were her hands simply cold?
A New Year's Eve call from
Czech potato pancake grandma in
How desperate;
Perplexed. Just moments ago
A c-note
A one time affair
Lipstick on the butt
And it will be a few days
A time is chosen. For another one-nighter
Drunk by midmorning
Perhaps? Muddled like old macaroni
Bothersome;
For now. And crying about it
Making a clown
Yet I know
Just no way to get there.
"get well soon."
Walking the street
Keeping her head
Another dead giveaway. And the taste
And the circumference of the city
Exposing the belly of the snake
Sandy Green writes, "I grew up in New Jersey and returned to live in South Jersey after graduation
from college. My poems and stories have been published in several literary reviews, newspapers,
magazines, and anthologies including Bitter Oleander, Anderbo, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Ibbetson Street,
and
Chicken Soup for the Child's Soul(HCI 2007). My chapbook—Pacing the Moon—was released by
Flutter Press in 2009."
Abigale Louise LeCavalier's poetry has appeared in many online as well as print magazines, including Fullosia Press,
Black Cat Press,
The Sheltered Poet,The Same, FreeXpression, and Record Magazine.
She submitted the following: Her name is Abigale Louise LeCavalier, a name that was not given to her, a name she chose
for herself. Louise is for her grandmother whom she loved dearly, and she shares that name with her mother and sister.
She kept the last name because she wanted it to remain the same as her two sons. As for Abigale,
she wanted something as far away from her birth name as possible, and she always loved that name. Abigale has seen the movie
The Breakfast Club probably 100 times, but remembers
first time most clearly. For this reason: She looked like Anthony Michael Hall(Brian), wanted to be Molly Ringwald(Claire),
but identified most with Ally Sheedy(Allison). Now her life consists of trying to make her "outside" look like what
she identifies "inside." The hardest thing she have ever done.
Hugh Fox's bio is a novel in itself. We offer a small part of it here: Born in Chicago, 1932, polio as a kid, first human being to receive a pre-Saulk serum that worked. But because he had been crippled for more than a year, and his father was an ex-violinist turned M.D. and his mother a frustrated non-acting actress, he was soaked in culture during his entire childhood: violin, piano, musical composition, art, travel. Then pushed into medicine himself for three years of pre-med and a year of medical school. Rebelled and got a B.S. (Hum.) and M.A. (English) from Loyola U.in Chicago, a Ph.D.(in American literature) from the U. of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), marriage to Peruvian poet Lucia Ungaro de Zevallos. Prof. of American Literature, Loyola University in Los Angeles (now Loyola Marymount University) , 1958-1968,Professor in the Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University (1968-1999).Taught writing and film. Now retired, Professor Emeritus . Fulbright Professor of American Studies/Literature, U. of Hermosillo, Mexico, 1961, U. Católica and Institúto Pedagógico, Caracas, 1964-1966, U. of Florianópolis, Brazil, 1978-1980. Married Brazilian M.D. Maria Bernadete de Costa.1 yr. studying Lt. Am. culture at Mendoza Foundation (Caracas) with Mariano Picon-Salas. Organization of American States Grant to study Latin American Studies/Argentinian Literature, U. of Buenos Aires, 1971.John Carter Brown Library Fellowship, Brown U. , 1968 (Studies in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish economics and avant-garde literature). OAS grant as archaeologist, Atacama Desert, Chile, 1986.Lectures in Spain and Portugal 1975-’76.Lecture on his archaeological findings at the 2007 convention of the Ancient American Artifacts Preservation Foundation. Founder and Board of Directors member of COSMEP, the International Organization of Independent Publishers, from 1968 until its death in 1996. Editor of Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry, 1968-1995. Latin American editor of Western World Review & North American Review, during 60’s. Former contributing reviewer on Smith/ Pulpsmith, Choice etc. currently contributing reviewer to SPR and SMR, etc. 102 books published, his most important novels, short stories, plays still unpublished. Check out Hugh Fox on Internet Search
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