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Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona<\/a><\/h3>
Facets \r\nOnce Love surfaces, two faces form one\r\nFoundation, surfing upon each other,\r\nAnd two-backed Sex sutures two-fold Beauty ,\r\nWhile struggling tongues, twinning, chat and back-chat.\r\n\r\nPerfumed phantasm of fluttering voice,\r\nIn our jiggling,...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Flower Rae Shearer<\/a><\/h3>
Said the Butterfly to the Flower \r\nI've been standing out here all winter waiting to see your face.\r\nMy toes have become brittle and my blue lips reminisce\r\nof kisses. I know You cannot melt this snow,\r\nperhaps I should have a talk with Mr. Sun\r\nbut I...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Chad M Norman<\/a><\/h3>
A Season at Bishopsgate, 1815 \r\n(Mary standing on a boulder;\r\n a small sealed box between her feet) \r\n\r\nOne brief and tranquil summer\r\nI was led to pardon the timing of Fate\r\nas shade went away from the shadow\r\nbringing the hot spotted rooms of Bishopsgate\r\nwhere...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Wale Owoade<\/a><\/h3>
\r\nA Prologue \r\n(Written after Gachugau\u2019s \u2018Promenade\u2019) \r\n\r\nCertain thoughts are brutal to\r\nmy own fears\r\n\r\nI am a traveller at night, I write\r\nthe night with every face I met\r\n\r\nIn a sense, I am either my poems\r\nor the man talking in my poems.\r\n\r\n \r\nTo A Fat...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Karen Shenfeld<\/a><\/h3>
Companion Poem \r\n(for L. C.) \r\n\r\nHe floats you supine on the sea. Your body\r\n\r\na small island, strangely\r\nhuman. With compass and quadrant,\r\nhe comes to know you,\r\n\r\ncharting the elongated coastlines\r\nof your torso and limbs,\r\nyour fingers\u2019 intimate i...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: John Slater<\/a><\/h3>
Hatched \r\n\r\nWhen they cut the wen\r\noff your forehead\r\nwe cracked birds\u2019 egg\r\nthen lobotomy jokes\r\nover the loops of blue\r\nthread stitched into a\r\ngruesome purple scar.\r\n \r\nOn the car-ride home\r\nwe stopped for\r\nbowls of cappuccino.\r\nIn a snug niche b...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2063,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/2228"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}