Vol. I No. I |
September
1999
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The
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The Lottery Ticket by Janet Buck My amputation painted your life in ways I've never understood. A father bleeding on a page he had to--mad to-- sad did--hide. Dodging bees by pouring beer. Accidents of frail does in ditches with each step I limp. Thorns as quiet as fresh snow draw blood beneath a poem's lines. I measured the space and the length of the crawl by stop signs of your worried eyes. When tragedy defies erasure. Heavy hammered silence reeks, controls my squeaky tennis shoes, metal joints, and domes of try. Religion was and is, will always be, connected to approval's prayer. I will move until I win the ticket to its lottery. 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.