LISA M CRONKHITE : Slapped into Reality
DYAN SANDEFER : Demolition
JANET I. BUCK : Buried Rubies
POETRYREPAIRS v12.03:026
contemporary international poetry - for your reading pleasure,
poetry from new and established poets and essays on writing


All the fine arts are species of poetry--Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Slapped Into Reality [CRONKHITE approaches the confessionals of Sylvia Plath then goes beyond into the violence of healing (psychological healing the most barbaric of them all - from solitary confinement to electro shock and lobotomy -why else the uniforms of war). ]

LISA M CRONKHITE has work in Bible Advocate, Combat Magazine, and Clark Street Review . She is currently taking a writer'™s course in Connecticut. Lisa resides in the U.S. with her family. A sufferer of Bipolar disorder CRONKHIE writes as a coping skill in hope of better understanding.



for mature audience over 18 BACK
Slapped into Reality Demolition Buried Rubies  
POETRY requires a mature audience ENTER only if you are 18+ under 18? klik here

LISA M CRONKHITE
Slapped into Reality
In a crowded room of navy uniforms and draping white coats, they wrestled down her wrists and legs, strapped her convulsive body in thick red belts, laying her on a bed of sterile sheets, as she screamed for angels to take her away'"eyes pointed to the ice trays on the ceiling, staring directly into the light, asking, why God, before they slapped a bruise in her arm and needled her into reality.
POETRYREPAIRS 12.03:026
link to poetryrepairs
I have many things to write unto you but   I will not write with pen and ink
--JOHN the theologian


an individual is a follower of tradition insofar as the work is historical - T. S. Eliot


FIND home

Slapped into Reality Demolition Buried Rubies  
POETRY requires a mature audience ENTER only if you are 18+ under 18? klik here

DYAN SANDEFER 
Demolition 
Demolition. Across the street, they are finishing demolition of an old dormitory building. Before the events of that September Tuesday, a sight that would have been merely fascinating ... useless office conversation, something to watch and wonder, 'how do they do that?' 'do you suppose it's planned in advance, choreographed. like a ballet?' But things change... and today as each section falls, we all take a deep sigh and shudder collectively. The skeleton of the building, the rubble piled all around, the gray dust obscuring our view, it was all an ugly reminder of an evil act we thought would never happen here. We could not bear to watch, we could not tear ourselves away. Demolition.
POETRYREPAIRS 12:03: 026
SHOP
Poetry endangers the established order  of the soul - Plato





guidelines INDEX
Slapped into Reality Demolition Buried Rubies  
POETRY requires a mature audience ENTER only if you are 18+ under 18? klik here

JANET I. BUCK
Buried Rubies
It's a delicious rumor running its thin band under the Evening News. The Taliban has fled one city, left its scar a cuticle hanging from the battered ruins. Defections beat the stinging sand. Camel humps begin to smile. Venders push a scrap of music - buried brick of gold it was, wasting years in closet dark, the Hell of which I'll never know. Several women lift their shrouds. Burka, djellaba, sari, toga virilis - oppression spelled so many ways, woven in religion's cloth, turned against identity. Maybe we are hangers down a rotting cast that would have peeled its heaviness. I have a dream of ears and necks emancipated from a noose. Of vinegar tongues tasting the moon, deciphering bowls of sugarcane. I have a dream of fleshy cheeks turning rubies in the sun. Skin no longer Jezebel. Heart no longer withered prune. Mandolins are humming up from secrecy. Lids lift crust around a sore. I pray a shining eye remains. That peace is more than hope's pastiche, threads of which will ravel when our soldiers leave. I've had such a Hallmark life of sequined luck and fluff parades. Closest thing I ever stitched for Barbie Dolls - muumuus for Hawaiian luaus staged on spotless carpet floors.
POETRYREPAIRS 12:03: 026
LISA M CRONKHITE : Slapped into Reality
DYAN SANDEFER : Demolition
JANET I. BUCK : Buried Rubies

Not a state organ: POETRYREPAIRS accepts no monies from federal, state, or local governments. We relie on readers like you.

Please contribute to maintain POETRYREPAIRS online.
free counters
NAVIGATION for mature audience over 18
BACK | comments + feedback on FACEBOOK | FIND| guidelines | home INDEX | LinkedIn® professional networking services |

submit editor@[sitename]
<