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Poetry || SubmissionsThe Jerusalem to Georgetown BusBy Henry B. Stobbs The roof curls up and back like the out-rolled tongue of a metal shoe, but jagged along its length in a way that triggers other images, perversions I am ashamed to show you ¯ tongues of nail and flame, blood-splashed aluminum labia, the forced cunnilingus of violent death: One night, my brother and I used iodine and all the red dye from Mom's cake frosting kit to make balloon bombs ¯ a reporter came the next day to photograph the giant, meat-red chrysanthemums and little bits of rubber tissue that disgraced the Georgian brick and stucco homes on our street, defying every effort to hose them off. Henry B. Stobbs: "I am a German-Russian translator, and hold an MFA from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. I live, write, and teach composition to correctional facility inmates in Tiffin, Ohio. My poems have been published in a variety of journals, including ByLine, Illya's Honey, Madison Review, Oklahoma Review, and The Writer. I have been awarded the Edward Vickers Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Phyllis Smart Young Prize in poetry. My favorite poets are Seamus Heaney, Nicholas Christopher, and PattiAnn Rogers." Henry B. Stobbs lives in Tiffin, Ohio. Today's Situation
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