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SUSAN FARMER

Legacy for a Daughter


SUSAN FARMERLegacy for a Daughter

Father says
Grandfather
waded tobacco fields
drenched in sweaty work
Grandfather gauged his days
by horse drawn carriage pattern
of great uncle the country Doc
Grandfather figured it was cooler work
and leapt from secondary
to medical school

Only girl
in the fields, I
listen to neighbor boys
brag how well they lift heavy
hay this season of baling and
of tractor pulled wagons
racing the rain for a dry stacked barn
My hands so yellow hard callused
I make safety pin tunnels
never feel a thing

Father works his town job
With this hobby farm
he dreams us back where
Granddad started

I watch the road
for carriages

c2004 SUSAN FARMER

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   ALICE PERSONS
Telephoning John

2 AM from a freezing Boston phone booth - you never minded me waking you up. Oregon, a general store in the woods, hot July, the idle old men speculating about my anatomy under my fishing clothes. When I left I was smiling. You missed me. Lying alone on the floor of my dark living room - cold Wisconsin rain against the windows, too sleepy to hang up. Drunk in a bar in Cody, Wyoming, yelling over the jukebox - "Honey, there's a fight - think I'd better go." On a wharf in Seatle: Puget Sound glittered while I waited for the coins to drop. Afterwards I walked by the water and planned a trip to see you. Travelling light, I don't need a picture and I know your number by heart.

c2004 ALICE PERSONS
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SUSAN FARMER's 'Legs pour une Fille' is a computer translation from REVERSO. You be the Judge

   SUSAN FARMER
Legs pour une Fille

Père dit Grand-père Champs(Domaines) de tabac traversés Trempé dans travail en sueur Le grand-père a mesuré ses jours Par cheval modèle de chariot dessiné(tiré) De grand oncle le pays Doc Le grand-père a supposé que c'était le travail de refroidisseur Et a sauté de secondaire À faculté de médecine Seulement fille Dans les champs(domaines), je Écoutez des garçons de voisin La vantardise comment bien ils se soulèvent lourd Foin cette saison de baling et De tracteur a tiré des chariots Faisant courir(Faisant la course,De course) avec la pluie pour une grange empilée sèche Mes mains si callused dur jaune Je fais des tunnels d'épingle de sûreté (de goupille de sécurité) Ne sentez jamais une chose Le père travaille son travail de ville Avec cette ferme de passe-temps Il rêve nous en arrière où Grand-père a commencé J'observe la route Pour chariots

c2004 SUSAN FARMER
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   GRAHAM CATT
scissors

Dr Frankenstein made this monster but only the head and forgot the rest a duck with a razorblade bill a techno pterodactyl with empty eyeholes and a bolt through the jaw this predator of the stationery world lurks in the bottom drawer feasts on paper shreds words and pictures makes confetti out of history then spits strips hear them sing click click click a twitter that isn't sweet the clean metallic clip of blade upon blade that makes paper shudder scissors thrive on destruction have nothing to fear at the top of the food chain and only face extinction when there is no more paper to cut

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Classroom Issue 04

PoetryRepairShop welcomes submissions for its Classroom Issue, which is scheduled for June 2004! (submission deadline is MAY 15, 2004.) Michael Paul Ladanyi, poet and editor, will put together this Classroom Issue We are currently seeking teacher/student poetry submissions. Please interpret this call for submissions broadly. If there is someone who has influenced or encouraged your work, whether by critique, example, or perhaps just a kind word, or if you have done the same for someone else, please submit works from each of you. If you enjoy writing collaborative work, those pieces are welcome as well. If you have your own ideas about what work may fit this issue, email them to me and I will be happy to consider them and respond to you quickly. I look forward to reading your work. Warmly, Michael Paul Ladanyi --- The poet, Michael Paul Ladanyi. http://www.geocities.com/michael_paul_ladanyi/index.html The Editor ladanyi@poetryrepairs.zzn.com

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