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JOAN McNERNEY : Delivery Driver
JOAN McNERNEY : Maintenance Man

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JOAN McNERNEY
Delivery Driver

Ray comes all winter with office supplies. He calls female workers “gorgeous”. Smiles spread like wild fire. Besides reams of paper, ink cartridges, he carries the sun. Says it fits perfectly into his bowling bag. Sprinting upstairs, balancing boxes of staples, paper clips, pens, Ray shouts. “I brought the sun with me today, slung it right over my shoulder.” He brings what they all want on those icy dark afternoons to make them feel sizzling warm.

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JOAN McNERNEY
Maintenance Man

Everything falls apart, all things rot and crack. Each day another tenant fills out forms to request repairs. Hot water tanks burst, sinks back up, toilets jam. Smoke alarms break. It's a messy life, he pushes against riptide. All spring and summer, weeds keep growing. Leaves gather during fall. In winter time, ice covers walkways. It’s time to go home now. Tomorrow he will return to pick up the pieces again.

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 The 2016 Raynes poetry prize from Jewish Currents magazine is now accepting submissions.

NOTE: Poets of all ages, backgrounds, religions/non-religions, and orientations are encouraged to submit.

This year's theme is Urge.
Our judge is  Alicia Ostriker.

Prizes include:
$1,000 first prize
$180 for two second prizes
Publication in Jewish Currents
Top 36 poems collected into an anthology Summer 2016 (Blue Thread Press)
All poems considered for future publication in the magazine

All the details for online and snail mail submissions are here: http://jewishcurrents.org/poetry2016-39421

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REPAIR: resort, frequent or habitual going; concourse or confluence of people at or in a place; making one's way; to go, betake oneself, to arrive; return to a place; to dwell; to recover, heal, or cure; to renew; to fix to original condition. -- Oxford English Dictionary


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JOAN McNERNEY hails from Ravena, New York. poetryrepairs will feature her "Work" poems in the May 2016 issue (#225)


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