Tag: memory
member name: Maura Alia Badji
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June 30, 2006 02:51 AM EDT --
Sweet Revenant for Norma
In French heels, you were film
noir to the neighborhood's two-reel
matinee. Sloe-eyed and languorous
your gaze said I'm not here to stay. . . .
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June 30, 2006 09:19 PM EDT --
Submarine Blues, International House, Mistaken Identity
My stubborn hair has grown longer since you left for sea;
At night I read the thin blue letters you send to me.
Downstairs Ben . . .
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June 29, 2006 11:43 PM EDT --
Listening For Fish in Poughkeepsie
They hang onto my arms and legs. As we pass the river, five children pull me to water we can't touch or swim, to wave as The Clearwater Sloop . . .
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July 04, 2006 12:45 PM EDT --
Douglas
In your James Dean jacket
so self-contained,
you'd ignite, in white heat
if I rubbed against you.
We're a match. I'm watching a movie,
watching you, again,
watching you . . .
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July 08, 2006 11:49 PM EDT --
Rememory
Afterwards,
there were months spent
scraping myself clean
against solid rock,
baring bone,
muscle, blood, stone.
Until I learned
I didn't have to hurt
to get better, that . . .
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July 02, 2006 10:13 AM EDT --
Paper boat
loaned by moon
that lazy shark pilot Catastrophe averted--
Johnny Nervebundle Johnny DangerMoney Johnny
Swinghat
Johnny-I-wore-a-dress-for-you-and-this-is-what-I-get? . . .
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July 24, 2008 03:33 AM EDT --
“My fave ice cream memory is when my mom took a teeming carload of us--me, my two younger brothers and a gaggle of our friends to Howard Johnson's (AKA HoJo's) for ice cream. We were on our way . . .
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July 04, 2006 11:53 AM EDT --
Alia
My middle name
is a town in Sicily
I found on a National
Geographic map, not far
from Piazzo Cangilosi. So close
to my grandfather's name--Congilosi,
meaning with jealousy. Paired . . .
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July 02, 2006 10:23 AM EDT --
Benediction
All day I snap fresh sheets
over antique beds, carry
cart-loads of snowy towels still
warm from the basement laundry,
stop long enough to catch
breeze from a window above
Mohonk . . .
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