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“Little Reminder”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 21, 2008 by

  When your mother’s belly rose, I did not leave you unmoored,   but bound and docked you by umbilical cord.   And when the floodgates opened, and you washed forth like a turtle, held aloft and helpless in a … Continue reading →

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“At the Creation, October 1, 1890″: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 21, 2008 by

  Be just arrived.   Be Midwestern dirt under Midwestern   fingernails   puncturing the skin of a juice-heavy orange.   Be flesh of orange mist of orange before orange in sunshine of orange.   Be the light softening   the clay-lipped … Continue reading →

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“Hip”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 20, 2008 by

  beneath the sour apple tree   you will knob my more of tone and fin   we will bop and lie in wraps and yalp   and moan   your ribs i’ll finger like a harp   and you … Continue reading →

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“Eating Disorder”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 19, 2008 by

  fat black   bee with bitty   bee face   burrowing a   blood red rose   buzzing

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Know Hope: Barack Obama and the Liberal Journey

Posted on July 17, 2008 by

  Martin Luther King once said:   If you can’t run, walk.   If you can’t walk, crawl.   But by all means, keep moving.

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“California in 1957″: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 17, 2008 by

     Giants and Dodgers   moving west   without Ebbets Field   or Jackie Robinson   but with Jack Kerouac   and Holiday Inns   rounding third at the Pacific   and driving   not sliding   home

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“Spontaneous Buddha Nature”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 17, 2008 by

    through feathery clouds the sun opened   like the eye of an owl—   and in the sudden bullet of glare   the quicksilver breast   of a train

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“The Narcissist”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 16, 2008 by

  my fist opened like a pill bug   and in my palm a pond   and i a goldfish in that pond

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“Deliverance”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 15, 2008 by

  bobbing like a jug   a naked body in the river   and on its back a crow   before men were here   there were rivers   and the round eyes of birds

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“At the Border”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 15, 2008 by

  Mexicali waters   sour with laundry suds   California aqueduct   white with almond buds

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“Witness”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 15, 2008 by

  I’ve been told that the shore’s scattered jellyfish   are remnant tissue   from the placenta of creation   that millions of years ago out of its belly   the ocean heaved forth the mountains and the valleys—   … Continue reading →

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“I Have a (Republican) Dream”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on July 14, 2008 by

Shimmying in the Santa Barbara sun   the scaffolding of a new ocean derick   rising like John McCain’s Venus,   Cindy   her platform Shell labeled OIL.

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“Miracle, Mystery, and Authority”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

Posted on June 28, 2008 by

  A brown robed friar among mission flowers.   A child spins before him.   Sun-gleaming,   dizzying the motion.   Will the heavens never stop   in their orbits and explosions?

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