By Mary Pacifico Curtis The magnetic north pole is moving I hear and imagine it’s gone for a walk freeing itself in circles around where it was fixed stretching and testing the magnets mood as the globe shifts too what was the USSR now a collection of stans Kazakhi-Uzbeki-Turkmeni-Jajaki and Kurdistan for northern Iraq Dagestan [...]
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Force of Paper
Posted in Mary Pacifico Curtis on April 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fast Lane
Posted in Mary Pacifico Curtis on August 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
By Mary Curtis To the right three kids two parents kicking up dust on the side of a highway a fast moving highway a fast moving family out of their car in the mirror as I pass the littlest boy urps pressing his shorts close to white spindles in big shoes (I imagine goose bumps) [...]
Submission Guidelines
Posted in Mary Pacifico Curtis on June 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
By Mary Pacifico Curtis Do not send poems about the death of a pet loved one, failed romance, a rhymy rhyme what you send better be funny not chicky ducky under any circumstances fuzzy rabbits aren’t publishable consider beer, wine, gift cards to Starbucks we need sustenance to publish what we will limbs, crazed acts [...]
News From Haiti 2010
Posted in Mary Pacifico Curtis on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Mary Pacifico Curtis The girl-child is one among thousands round belly girded by obvious ribs, her brown twig arm with willow digits outstretched, glittering brown pools for eyes holding this moment and the ones before of amputation and pain controlled, now cookie in hand she urges her surgeon to enjoy the sweet.
