Vol. I No. I |
September
1999
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The
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Napalm Stares by Janet Buck I pedal by your perfect legs with all my strength-- addressing hills bone burials of trouble in tuxedo form. The press release of mortal's globe in glassy domes of missing space. Barbed wire eyes are prison guards-- expelled from playgrounds after school by obvious lack and chimes of grace as sluggish as wet bales of hay. Armpit hair-- knobby knee-less running naked through the streets. Napalm stares explode in semen of a poem. Pain's pregnancy is understood but never, ever carried home. Janet teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her poetry and poetics have appeared in The Melic Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Kimera, 2River View, Tintern Abbey, Southern Ocean Review, The Horsethief's Journal and hundreds of journals world-wide. In 1998 and 1999, she has received numerous creative writing awards and been a featured poet for Seeker Magazine, Poetry Today Online, Vortex, Conspire, Poetry Cafe, Dead Letters, the storyteller, Poetry Heaven, Athens City Times, Poetik License, 3:00 AM e-zine, Poetry Super Highway, and Carved in Sand. Newton's Baby Press is soon to publish her first print collection entitled Calamity's Quilt. Janet is one of ten artists to be featured at the "One Heart, One World" Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City in April, 2000. The tour will travel to four countries. THIS WORK IS COPYRIGHT OF THE AUTHOR.
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THE DANFORTH REVIEW IS EDITED BY MICHAEL BRYSON.