| ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.COM |
| ***BIO*** The online magazines Oysters and Chocolate, The Angry Poet, and various Pagan sites published my work. I won honorable mention in the religion category in the 2006 Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest and placed two poems in The Angry Poet contest. Written publications include The Angry Poet Contest Issue and Two of the Midwest Writing Center‘s Out Loud Anthology of Poetry. I am an Agronomist and live in Illinois overlooking the Mississippi River with my three cats. |
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| Eczema and Secondary Infections |
| by Salvatore Marici |
| Small ants crawling
between first and second skin layers finger nails dig and scrape breaking skin. Bacterium sneaks in at a hair follicle. White blood cells and bacteria push the skin outward building a red bump cheery as WC Field’s nose on the top of the crack of my ass. Each passing hour it gets wider and higher proud like the American flag on the moon. Three days later the pincushion has the diameter of a nickel high as a dime pins stabbing even when buck-naked. Boxer shorts and pants compete for space rubbing, pressuring, agitating the swollen nerve endings on top of tomato red and Iguana like skin stretch to transparency white gooey mass pushing through the greasy snow ball. Ripe ready to pop holding back from squeezing scream one loud “ouch” discharging a viscid substance like angel hair spaghetti coming out a pasta machine deflating while “ahs” sing to bliss. Instead rub cortisone ointment, antibiotic gel and jelly lidocaine on a volcano ready to erupt trying to put in dormancy. |
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| Mar. 2008 |
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