Hugh Seidman
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PoemsMARLA RUZICKA 12/31/1976 – 4/16/2005
Founder: Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) spread the word it will be what we make it For Adrienne Rich sparks ratchet from the tinder crackle from the racket of fire and light and are gone tireless, fearless against generals, bureaucrats, politicians her skull touching skull hem of her black abaya clenched in her fist set on the shoulder of the unveiled woman in hijab who buttresses the dark-eyed, moon-eyed child corpuscles hiss from the splutter flare from the pyre drafts motes rocket, incandesce, and are lost flecks tick from the holocausts ingénue face-splitting smile Buddha-girl California smile petite with curly blonde tresses pretty, peppy, fiery, vivacious nicknamed Bubbles in Kabul immolated by a God car on the Baghdad airport road her last outcry: “I’m alive” • no invader grieved at any funeral or house no envoy offered help or remorse from mutilated torso to torso blogs mocking her even as martyr Rock Creek Park Rollerblade Queen, Cluster Bomb Girl spitfire, hurricane, love bomb manic, anorexic, insomnial fortified by parties and red wine avatar of the tendered nipples of Ishtar registrar of the mutes of the underworld gladiator of the courage of the vulnerable novice of no past at the boundary of history saint of the collateral orphans paladin weeping for a metal planet nova emptying its burden of souls stranger arousing the genital wind auric-haired bride Marla wrapped in the black abaya like the dawn blistering past blood beyond the background 2011 (10/13); 2012 (1/30); 2013 (9/12); 2014 (4/8)
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Prior version: Big Bridge (2008)[www.bigbridge.org]. (More to come) |
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