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***BIO*** Kathy Polenberg:You may ask yourself "how did I get here?"  I confess some of my writing comes under the influence of the defunct yet deliberate traffic light at the corner of Broadway and Brighton- the one that cracked a filter trying to become a poet . . . it's in tribute to that stubborn posture that I write poems.

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slower approach to yellow
by Kathy Polenberg
I can't stand
any place
except right here
not touching (mind you)
but near
enough
to the old stuffed ones
now they have wound themselves up

into one big
balled clog
in your carotid coffee
your slip-knotted noose
your loose vertical razor cuts
across intersecting
sippycup streets and
microbrew avenues
and mid-sentence . . .

. . . trails off

because their "real kids"
(the ones I dream I'm doing away with)
keep crossing
in between
against my light

makes me want to red scream
Sept. 2006
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