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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY
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JOSEPH VERONNEAU
Protest? Hands covered even in darkness; chain-linked gestures. Arms hooked as if to dosey doe. It is freezing and most are wearing hats, staring straight ahead for not to see the ones that disagree with them. I hope that dinner was already cooked and eaten. I hope the ones with kids already sent them off to play at Jimmy's. I'd rather have seen them with swords and torches, walking through the square with ghoulish faces. Instead, they stood. Candles melted down into their hand-made gloves, their garments ruffled in the wind. And nothing at all was said. Joseph Veronneau runs Scintillating Publications, publishers of fine chapbooks and the annual literary journal, AGUA. His own poems have appeared widely throughout the small press. He has 2 new chapbooks about to be released in the upcoming months, one from Pudding House Press, the other from Propaganda Press. www.freewebs.com/scintillatingpublications |
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