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by Richard Shuldiner
... (continues the series "third season of love: to an audience of whores" originally published at Mind Caviar) morphine to my fears
... by Richard Shuldiner ...
beneath the towering kentile sign's glowing elemental gasses swirl compressed through liquid curves two shadow forms are left to shine then vanish on the surface oil beside the banks of the gowanus canal
we walk an amber asphalt bridge beneath sandstone subway towers past grey diamond urban landscapes past decaying warehouse walls past fat immobile men who sit behind black wrought iron fences guardians of home and family
diesel fumes flowers of dread lazy summers heat humid air pushed back into the bricks stretched cotton curved skin deep flesh moist electric hair grasped open filled by shocks shoved through webbed existence
in the park on the broad green lawn other dreams ... Copyright © 2002-2003 Richard
Shuldiner. All Rights Reserved. May not be re-printed in any form without
express written consent of the author. Do not copy or post.
Richard Shuldiner is an expatriate New Yorker and librarian who lives and works in southern Vermont, USA. His poetry has appeared in several issues of The Ledge, Clean Sheets, and in Ophelia's Muse's sister site, Mind Caviar. Email Richard Shuldiner.
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