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T. C. Casella Titles: epistle/ my sister's parakeet |
T.C. Casella was born in Caracas, Venezuela and grew up in Miami. She received a Bachelor’s degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Miami, and is currently finishing a law degree and her first novel. Her poetry has appeared inSalome Magazine. |
epistle
by T.C. Casella
suspended at my small wooden desk dust hangs in the light percussion pauses on the keys I wonder if I am the only person who types in rhythm this matchbox flat a disorganized city with separate zoning for clothes, books, and tissues old receipts articles to be read small devices earrings that have lost their partners and that 1929 copy of Lady Chatterley I promised you still dozing on my shelf screams and laughter of school children pierce the lace curtains of my miniature labyrinth and again I erase a line then another rearrange the empty spaces clearing here a "k" there an "s" adding a vowel in between another agonized tongue-tie wrung like old rags that washed dirty dishes now laying swollen under that leaking pipe in the bathroom predicate and preposition another item to be cleaned later white acquires a bluish hue the percussion fades and |
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Hinchas de Poesia, Winter, 2010 Edited by Yago Cura & J. David Gonzalez Invincible Court, NYC, NY 10030 email: hinchasdpoesia.com |
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