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| ***BIO*** Lou Maraj is an unemployed recent college graduate. A native of the Caribbean island of Trinidad, he spent the last four years at Ramapo College in New Jersey. He hopes to pursue an MFA in poetry next fall, if everything somehow falls into place. |
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| My Brother’s Keeper |
| by Lou Maraj |
| The shake of the bunk-bed wakes me, thinking
he may be seizing, but in a quiet- quick moment, I realize romancing of hand and skin— pleasing in borne, heated movement. Right or wrong, I cannot disturb his pre-morning song— because disrupting might only be reconstructed as myth horrifying enough to sit dormant in me and him— steel and springs look down at me, fixed on the thin nearness between burning, thick anxieties. Then, half-bodied, he warily glares down, his head a tiger’s spotting danger— eyes— his, mine— conspire to blind remnants of this slow, passing night. |
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| Nov. 2009 |
| 127 |