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CHERILYN FERROGGIARO
Jagged little pills and other intoxications he seeks adrenaline in alleys and streetverse. the yearning is provoked by a scorching hell from a blinding urge so deep it overcomes him, becomes him. tonight the sheets are too loud with light; he cowers in the corner, extremities, limbs, viscera, all throbbing, humming, burning in confusion, from a drug flowing like cheap talk through his veins. but if he should call on me, ever need me- i will come to him---------------------- drink the poison from his lip and in that final moment, pray he regains footing in calmer waters. Fingered By a Wind That Tastes of Goodbyes and Far-Off: and when i walked out into the parking lot, it hit me; i am alone in this city of the departed. i try to seize the day, sick on my own, but with little effort since i cannot seem to break from these chains. and i thought i heard you say 'i am here', no. i am here, you are there. patience is fading, my love burning, lips wet with morning tears and morphine, but even though i know you are not far behind--- i still count the second hand like shed skins. - i need you. and i bury my clothes in fields far from here, my screams going unheard. cold and damp; i lie in the stillness, my feet six months into the dirt-- the burden of given name and vicinity in my hands. English Summer Rain: some women master mirrors in gas stations and motel rooms, learn to get by when july deepens fastbreath or uncertain hands. they count tips in denny's, lying themselves into poetry, blending into the pavement in pigeon shit gray, elegy clinging to pores like perspiration or an old drug. the ashtray girls, their bodies tree stumps in mud, fashioned in the light of sour milk and insult. they buy french sleepers to weep in, whisper abandonment, carry love, light like a wafer on the tongue. they pick up pennies, study them for signs of age, see months become smoke in still rooms along the back streets of eden. ladies, hardened to glass, they lose children in supermarkets, but if sang to they splinter like glass. they will sink into the cold, minutes becoming urgent and everything will be counted, like meter money, like days that pass with rain and nothingness. Cherilyn Ferroggiaro is an Italian brat from Sonoma, California. She is currenly in school to become a Physician's Assistant and has appeared in a variety of poetry journals, both online and in print. She is the photography editor of The Surface - Online Arts Magazine and Gallery, and spends her time enjoying photography and writing. Her most recent publications include: Reflections, Thunder Sandwich, Spent Meat, Underground Voices, The Melic Review, Surface Online, All Things Girl, Erosha, Poems Niendergasse, Locust, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, and Babel Magazine. Her current projects are becoming a partner in publishing with Meeting of the Minds Journal and Blue Steel Publications, a one time owner of Spitjawreview, she was an editor with Tony Spivey for The Regal Quill Quarterly, and she is currently working on her book "Scenes From the Station and Other Poems". Photography Editor: The Surface Online Arts Magazine and Gallery Surfaceonline.org Visit me: http://pathetic.org |
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