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AMAZE
Karen L. Newman
 
One Night Stand

I hate
the way you make me feel tonight -
the naked bruising scrape
of innocence
off shoes.

Intergalactic Virus

I am
an eraser,
an afterthought at the
end of the universe's sharp
pencil.

I swim
into human
bloodstreams to chap thin skin,
forming parchment for telling new
stories.

I am
the eraser,
all that remains after
the pencil breaks and all parchment
is gone.

Return to the front page of this issue:   Amaze   Vol. 3, No. 1   Spring & Summer 2004
Go to the Poets & Authors page for the poet's biographical sketch and email link.
These poems are Copyright © 2004 by Karen L. Newman.

 

Amaze: The Cinquain Journal is Copyright © 2002-2008 by Lisa Janice Cohen & Deborah P.Kolodji
All rights are retained by the respective authors.