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2 Poems: Kelley White

    Iron Burn

    Disgusting as the dogshit
    scabbed on snow in
    my backyard, I bent to it
    and gagged; the child trembled
    like a fire in the wind




    Sloe gin

    cheap drunk
    ladies' drink
    syrupy stick
    carry-me-home
    do-what-you-will-with-me

    keep one foot on the floor
    so I won't have a hangover or
    so I'll still be a virgin
    sleepy time
    weepy time
    wake up
    alone

Kelley White: I have been a pediatrician in inner city Phildadelphia for twenty years and writing poems again for about six; I've had more than two hundred poems accepted for publication since October 1999 and will have a book, The Patient Presents, published any day now by the People's Press in Baltimore and a chapbook, "I am going to walk toward the sanctuary," published by Via Dolorosa Press/Nepenthe Books this summer.



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