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***BIO*** Peter Schwartz is the editor of 'eye' and the associate art editor of Mad Hatters' Review. His artwork can be seen all over the Internet but specifically at: www.sitrahahra.com. He has almost 200 poems published in such journals as Porcupine, Vox, and Sein und Werden. Currently he is working on paintings for an exhibit at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in Chelsea NYC.

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december

by Peter Schwartz

I am human antique
red-handed; in the house
of winter.

these past few months
have been eternal.
I have played wife
to myself and survived
in stages -

tea, lunch, bed
spreading myself out
like playgrounds,
parking lots, and
graveyards.

dressed and
undressed the need
looks the same
and suffers every
repetition I can
name,

because need
is a
haunted medicine.

-

and so I come
red-handed; to this
incredible museum
of betweens

which was once
a house.

to hear what's
living, the wet rush
of being here
despite the other
months -

january to
november; daylight and
euthanasia; the shrinking
and side effects
of love's many
mousetraps

and its inevitable tunnel
to the snow-
lights.

May 2007