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Monday, February 14, 2011

ALLERGIES OR LOVE-STRUCK?

by Roxanne Hoffman
for Flo Rain who titled this poem

angel              
boy,               
cherubic,        
dimpled,
enters
fingering
glittering
harp
inside
Jane’s
kiss;
lips
maneuver
nimbly;
OUCH!
pinpricked;
quivers           
released         
striking          
target             
under             
Venus's        
wink;
XOX,
you
zigzag...


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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