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Wreckage on a Watery Moon
Mary Mclaughlin Slechta
Mary McLaughlin Slechta's short fiction and poetry have appeared in many journals and anthologies. Buried Bones, a chapbook of poems, came out in 2004 by FootHills Publishing. An associate editor of The Comstock Review, she also teaches and lives in Syracuse, New York with her husband and two sons.
Contents
The green is in the bough
A river of pearls
On an ocean called Broad Brook
Death's second self
Dream analysis
Dying quietly
Lifeboat
In possession of the walls
My father was kind
Bad news
Where two trains collided
ICU
Racing the median
Totaled
Lois Lane learns to pray
Turning back to the wreck
Waiting
Dreaming Dad
A serious setback
The very thought of you
A round
Alive
Letting go
Sam
What becomes of the brokenhearted?
The funeral
The man with his mother tattood on his arm
Wreckage
Other fine houses
Sore losers
A fish tale
Black Jack
Morning run
The rags of grief
Telephone call from The Home
The can of ackee
Initiation
Clearing a path
Driving Lesson
The time of death
Deathbed
First poems, last poems
The age of lead
Drought
In mourning
Our blue heaven
Dividing the estate
From the Book:
Wreckage
Trolley car tracks
slice the woods
like alien crop markings.
They lead in a single direction,
down to the lake.
A Ferris wheel hunkers
below the blue,
explaining nothing,
like wreckage
on some watery moon.
Sam
Sam has died
who sang my name for years and years
so long and beautiful across our yards
and thereby is forgiven
for making my first haircut
so very, very short.
ISBN 0-941053-84-9
Wreckage on a Watery Moon
is a 68 page hand-sewn book with spine - $14.00
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