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Rachel
Mallino
He
Doesn't Know
About That Which
Breathes Without Books
Scholarly
- his books pearls, strung
between
hands, he writes poetry
as
an illusion of jewels to the poor.
Stuffs
ideals inside jacket pockets
like
crumpled paper, warms his weapon
with
their purpose but slices thin skin.
He
disregards culmination--
that
sex comes first,
then
the child. The beast lives not
in
the lines, but between them.
Barks
at those who write
poetry
with thread, not royalty,
and
when the clasp breaks
his
fortunes crack at the fall.
10
February 2005,
round II, poem 10
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Rachel
Mallino has been published in
the Literati
Review,
Saucyvox.com
Review
and NPAC.
She won second
place in the April
2003 Net Poetry and Art Competition, and has moderated
numerous
online poetry forums. Rachel has been dreaming poetry since the age of
13, and is regularly inspired by other poets such as Charles
Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Jim Carroll and Marge Piercy.
Currently,
Rachel lives in South Florida with her daughter and kitty cat.
Email: Rachel Mallino
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