Tag: biography
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Death of an Immigrant by Bobbie Kalman
My father cheated death a number of times. People called him a hero. In Hungary, he was my hero. But our Revolution failed, and our dreams were denied. On Dad’s 35th birthday, we fled our country in the middle of the night. “You’re so lucky you got out,” those left behind cried. But my father…
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Niagara Falls: A Poem by Jim Daniels
Niagara Falls is a long poem of 700 lines where three stories, growing up Catholic in the industrial North, a honeymoon to Niagara Falls and a pilgrimage to Assissi, Italy, are interwoven in a master work of fractured narration. The language is relaxed and upbeat where metaphysical concerns meet, head on. Excerpt from Niagara…
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Francis Abbott; The Recluse of Niagara by James Bird
PREFACE, THE “Note” from Alexander’s Transatlantic Sketches,* which is appended to the following Poem, “FRANCIS ABBOTT,” will supply the particulars of “The Last Days” of that singularly unfortunate being. As so little is known of the earlier history of his life, I considered it no infringement of the licence universally allowed to the Poet, in…
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Niagara by Kathy Gilbert
The river carries me here As a babe on its island’s shores I play Palms and fingers squish soft sand, feet kick, On my back, sun warmed laps of waves. Currents change with the seasons Moody green, then blue; milky, then grey Factory polluted in a haphazard way. In autumn steam rises after first frost…
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Epiphanies on the First Cold Day by Robert Billings
1 I thought there was nothing in the fields of light that was not there in darkness After breakfast in a quiet house surrounded by pastures of new frost my heart crouches believing the next sound will be something it can sing 2 This is my persistent nightmare I jump into a shallow river Hy…