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published
in Jacket Magazine 21 (on-line);
in
anthology My Mother Threw Knives, 2006,
Second
Light Publications, ISBN 0-9546934-1-8;
in
collection, Manhattan Sonnets, 2003,
Redbeck
Press, ISBN 1-904338-07-0
With cool due on lower east side
from
Manhattan Sonnets
With cool dude on
lower East Side
First
date in the Park, hold cigarette
Don’t
know how to, Joe demonstrates
In
Italian, want to be cooler, me
At
his house off Delancey & Broom
I’m
shy in knee socks, unaware
Sofa
bed folds out, takes the room
Me
later, body tender in Square
One
night sick with fever, but I call
His
mother, Sorry Joe ain’t here
Take
bus downtown to no avail
Not
words or note, just bruising air
I
can’t give in, go back, move forward
A
child put off, who won’t be spurned
Lynne Hjelmgaard
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