Poems

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Rattle / August 1, 2008

Brian Satrom CORNER STORE If there’d been an Asian-American Norman Rockwell, he might have painted a scene like this. The […]

Rattle / July 26, 2008

someone writes kike on the blackboard and the “k’s” pull thru the chalk, stick in my plump, pale thighs. Even

Rattle / July 23, 2008

Perhaps as a child you had the chicken pox and your mother, to soothe you in your fever or to

Rattle / July 22, 2008

I swore I wouldn’t write a poem today. Instead, I decided, I would do my taxes. So here I am,

Rattle / July 20, 2008

She’s sick but determined to celebrate my coming for the second round of chemo. She stuffs her bra with shoulder

Rattle / July 19, 2008

Coincidentally the summer when the gazelles at the ecotarium kept jumping the fences most of my married friends were having