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Janet Buck has a Ph.D. in English and teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her poetry, poetics, and fiction have appeared in many, many magazines, both print and web-based. She has received the H.G. Wells Award for Literary Excellence. Her first print collection of poetry entitled Calamity’s Quilt is available from Newton's Baby. She was featured at the "One Heart, One World" Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City in April, 2000, her poem "Acrylic Thighs" will be translated into five languages and paired with original artwork that will tour France, Australia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Japan. An e-book of poems called Reefs We Live may be ordered from Word Wrangler Publishing.
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Tea to Brew
Godiva chocolate
youth is sweet.
Its circus a boardwalk
on borrowed change.
Grey cloud age.
Accordions with breath
inside trace their curves
by ways they fall.
I look at time like tea to brew:
dip my bag and fishing net
in every pond I come across.
Just another pirate stuck
in chalice mouths of Moby Dick.
Grand wilt. Full tilt
on breaking stilts.
I swallow staples of my bones.
Put my dreams on credit cards.
I have to thank you for my pen--
paying off horrendous bills--
lining up loose postage tears
to travel tandem down the aisle.
Serious Slots
It wasn't fun
to watch her lose,
take a drink,
lose a dollar,
take a drink,
lose another,
shake her purse
for anything.
Pot holes from
lit cigarettes--
silver blackened
desperate hands.
It wasn't fun
to watch her lose,
take a drink,
slip it in,
take a drink,
step off stairs
toward closing moons.
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Janet Buck
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Marriage, chocolate, and gambling. What three things in life tempt us?
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