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| ***BIO*** After almost a decade of working as a freelance photographer in
Europe, Maurice Oliver returned to America in 1990 to work for the
Los Angeles Times. Then, in 1995, he made a life-long dream reality
by traveling around the world for eight months. But instead of taking pictures, he recorded the experience in a journal, which eventually became dozens of poems. And so began his desire to be a poet. His poetry has appeared in The Potomac Journal, Circle Magazine, The MAG, Tryst3 Journal, Eye-Shot, Pebble Lake Review, Wicked Alice, The Surface, Word Riot, Taj Mahal Review (India), Stride Magazine (UK), Dandelion Magazine (Canada), Retort Magazine (Australia), & online at thievesjargon.com, girlswithinsurance.com, unlikelystories.org, subtletea.com., interpoetry.com (UK), kritya.com (India), blueprintreview.de (Germany), and elsewhere. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a private tutor. His poetry blog can be visited at: www.bloxster.net/mauriceoliver. |
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| "The Scenic Outhouse" Sonnet |
| by Maurice Oliver |
| It begins with an ordinary keyhole bravely
facing the future. One scenic outhouse. Buttons in the fountain. Crows of breasted double beaks. High-tech terra cotta. Paper butts. Sheep mines. A cloud full of glucose. Kool-aid foot powder. Canned heat. A case of home-made butter fingers. One glass eye. Two trombones necking. A chin in the fruit punch. Belly trancing. Knee capping. Goat teasing. Or try a little art that knows how to paint itself. A set of demolition dinner plates. Galoshes that fear water. A courtship with the man in the moon. Beach diapers. Hammock hashbrowns. Several petrified sausages. A breathing book. Or just more memories of soul bronchitis. |
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| Jan. 2007 |
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