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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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MAURICE OLIVER
Signs, Like A Blinking Red Heartbeat A few times, she claims to have held a real man in her mouth all day. She says she could not find a suitable place to bury him & insist his wounds had already healed to resemble brown streaks a crayon would make. But I know for a fact that many consume each other or end-up as the last century cooked in a spoon, all of which happened long before any kitchen appliances were ever invented & certainly eons before the labor-saving devices began to appear on the shelves of retail stores with little stickers acknowledging their foreign origins. After spending almost a decade working as a freelance photographer in Europe Maurice Oliver returned to America in 1990. Then in 1995 he made a lifelong dream reality by traveling around the world for eight months, recording his experiences in a journal instead of taking pictures. And so began his desire to be a poet. His poetry has appeared in The Potomac Journal, Circle Magazine, The MAG, Tryst3 Journal, Eye-Shot, Pebble Lake Review, Megaera, The Surface, Wicked Alice, Word Riot, Taj Mahal Review (India), Stride Magazine (UK), Dandelion Magazine (Canada), Retort Magazine (Australia), & online at unlikelystories.org, girlswithinsurance.com, subtletea.com, interpoetry.com (UK), kritya.in (India), & blueprintreview.de (Germany). He currently lives in Portland, Oregon where he is a private tutor. His poetry blogsite can be visited at: www.bloxster.net/mauriceoliver. |
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