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Volume 6

August 2010

Number 2


Literary Contributions



Mrs. Lemercier's January Dinner
By Cindy Goldberg

Death comes without warning in the colors that she loved
transporting her to the innocence of her ocean
her mountains, her Bassin-Bleu.

Like lightening death blacks out the sun when
the phone rings - dinner stops, eight eyes breathless watching
while hers fill and the world goes dark.

Far from this home death enters and sits at their
table like an unwelcome guest - she cannot
bear this invasion - not tonight, not ever.

The red broken body of her cousin trapped in a silent
scream found by a stranger with wary eyes - relieved
tears that this is not his son.

The tattered blue dress of her god mother crushed -
footsteps faltered in magnificent wreckage
discovered by a sister who wished it was her.

Orange chips in her father's hair gray and dirty
under mounds of debris, cacao bean in his mouth, a twisted
trunk never to see his petits-enfants.

Yellow sunlight shining on her nephew's innocence
lifeless in the nursery where he slept or cried or laughed no
one could tell for sure -a spirit waiting to be reborn.

Green ravaged garden, where they searched but could not
find the grandmother of her children who watch her
weep on the telephone, today an orphan.

Purple wine her husband pours to ease pain that consumes
her heart grey and numb awaiting the next
call from her Haitian home.



Cindy Goldberg is a teacher and writer from Pennsylvania. She hosts a local cable television show that airs daily. Cindy is married with two daughters. Her parenting articles have been published in a local parenting publication. Cindy's passion is writing short stories and poetry. Cindy began submitting her writing to literary journals in 2010. "Eyes" was published in the Tipton Poetry Journal. "Memories of One" was published in Word Salad Poetry. "Eyes Closed, Breathe", a short story, was published in the Cynic online journal.









Patterns
for Vinie Martin
By Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa

Sitting crooked on this zebra chair in your office,
my eyes take aim at the curtains
like those in the temple of Xingjiao,

at the shelf overlooking the window,
the paintings, the sculptures,
wood cuts, paper cuts, chrochet ....

I feel as if I climb up and look out at the world
from the top of the Iroko, from the top of Kilimajaro,
from the top of Burj Dubai,

as if I am in Paris, in New York, in London,
in the den of lifestyles,
histories, geniuses, and dreams.



Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa lives in Ireland. His poetry has been published in a number of online and print journals and an Irish-Canadian anthology. He is a Yeats's Pierce Loughran Scholar.



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