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Poetry || SubmissionsPoems by Janet BuckThe Boston Elbow When the magazine arrived with updates on prosthetic care, I did that cosmic hoarsy laugh (ironical comical smarmical sin)-- “luxury liners, custom fit, speed increased for little tasks.” Liberty Technology! The Boston Elbow at its best. They specialized in hope and help like doilies laid on pulsing rain that travels severed arteries. Accessories were “cushion soft” and “dishwasher safe.” Their “independent living aids” could not reverse a limb removed by landmines coating Bosnia. Short Salad Forks Born with blushing difference, I've never known a diving board, a balance beam, a trampoline. Allergic to your yogurt ease, I crave it like a cigarette. Limbs that touch like yours French kiss each time you stop to cross your legs. Tell me how impulsive walking (minus floor plans of a fall) conforms to ways the earth just breathes, incurring happy as it turns. Show me how five working toes can wiggle in a tennis shoe. Struggle seems like cutting steaks with nothing but a salad fork. Checking Passports Pecking on a paper wall, I look at passports of our lives as tubs of home-made applesauce that prove good things a seed can do. I found a man with yellow yolk unselfishness who doesn't need your Lipizzaner luxuries to witness ways the moonlight curves. Doesn't need a stack of drinks-- lace ballets of wallets full-- hands with bricks of hollow jewels-- to play his pilot in a storm. His conscience cleaner than his car. We're blessed in ways we chew our food as if it were conclusive meals of cherries from a final tree. Previously by Janet Buck at Ariga. You can wrote to her directly c/o JBuck22874@aol.com Today's Situation
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