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Saturday, December 25, 2010

QUANTUM- LEAP REVELRY

by Roxanne Hoffman
 
 
))  a  ((
//  baby  \\
)) CRIES! ((
\\  doubt  //
\\ exits //
>>  
// === \\
// father- \\
//   HOOD   \\
J grinning :-)
\\  holding  //
\\ infant //
XY
// José \\
//  knows!  \\
||  ======   ||
||   LIFE’S   ||
|| MIRACLE ||
\\ ====== //
\\ === //
YX
// == \\
// Night’s \\
//  oblivion  \\
// Peaceful  \\
(( QUASARS ))
\\   redshift   //
\\   ===   //
XX
// == \\
*Stars*
//    talk    \\
//    unto     \\
))   Virgins,   ((
((    WISE-    ))
))     guy!     ((
\\   =====   //
\\  ====  //
~X~
// FACT \\
//    or     \\
//     ??????    \\
((     Y~chrom~    ))
))  oh~some  ((
((        j       ))
  =
      (( ZERO-gravity ))     
 
FYI <3 U QT 4VR XOX
 
 
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
 

Roxanne Hoffman worked on Wall Street, now answers a patient hotline for a New York home healthcare provider. Her words can be found on and off the net in such journals as Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Clockwise Cat, Danse Macabre, The Fib Review, Hospital Drive, Lucid Rhythms, Mobius: The Poetry Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, and Shaking Like A Mountain; the indie flick Love And The Vampire; and the anthologies The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and their Affiliates (Soft Skull Press), Love After 70 (Wising Up Press), and  It All Changed In An Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure (Harper Perennial). She and her husband own the small press, Poets Wear Prada
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