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| ***BIO*** Author of the chapbook, "Stroking Castro's Beard," Patricia Gomes was named the First Place Winner in iVillage's Annual Poetry Slam in 2002 and 2003. She was awarded second Place in 2004. With her short stories and poems included in numerous anthologies, her recent works appear in Literary Potpourri, Shadow Keep Magazine, Dark Krypt, Poetry Super Highway, Unlikely Stories, and Scorched Earth. A member of the Massachusetts State Poetry Society and the Cape Cod Literary Press, her upcoming work will be published in Blue Fifth Review, Wolf Moon Press, and the inaugural issue (September 2005) of Lorraine and James' Global Urban Poetry.
Creator of the Octologue, an eight-line, syllabic form of poetry, Ms. Gomes performs throughout the New England area. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Adagio Verse Quarterly and an interviewer for Lily: An Online Literary Review. Her latest chapbook, Simple Truths and Coughing Things, co-authored with Michael Ladanyi, was published by Little Poem Press and released in March 2005. www.patriciagomes.com |
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| Culpability Behind Dark Circles |
| by Patricia Gomes |
| Dirty-lunged and close-pored,
tangled in sheets that saw whiter days in unpatched homes where bleach is not used for purification, but whitening whites. Only. Someone's here; I'm not alone, but I was never good at names. Last night's fire still coursing through the bloodstream on the way to its final destination in the toilet. EST: soon, friend, soon. 5 a.m. Guilt in the knowledge that miles away my mother is clean rising. Clean rising, clean living , clean sheeted. Empty cans roll in dust, dried vomit in the shower. Whose? Productivity shot to hell, creativity a myth. Mass is starting. 6 a.m. Guilt in knowing that I would taint the Host if it were placed upon my tongue. |
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| Aug 2005 |
| 46 |