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TIRAMISU (for Walt Whitman) Stephen Rybicki Snow falling: I brought some home to her Late yesterday (Figment of my imagination) she had a taste Which I was asked to satiate...
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AFTER SHOWERS (“To see a World in a Grain of Sand,” William Blake) Stephen Rybicki Within that single droplet of rain (a loupe is needed) Hanging precariously for the moment at the very tip...
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I CONFESS Stephen Rybicki Everything I wrote was imaginary Things never happened that way If you ask her She didn’t come along for the ride As I said many times So, she’s told me to leave her...
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POETRY ON THE FEAST OF STEPHEN Stephen Rybicki Wasn't it always his undying Love first attracted us And not that rogue star Made followers—nor the Creche and its accoutrements (Or the bloody...
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FIRST LOVE For a long—long Time I couldn't remember Your name— The word for you I had forgotten But carried the image Within me like First love—a ghost that hid In an empty room Behind a...
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FULL MOON She told me to turn off The main highway It was late and we were both Tired driving home But she wanted to stop At the side of a country road And stand in the cold Away from the...
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SURGEON (Marc Peter Sakwa, MD) All these parts that make The human heart you've been Learning their geography And where to go next? You know the route He'll take through skin And the rough...
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Two POEMS by Stephen Rybicki RESURRECTION What became of the many others like us That first Easter morning Who stared out the back windows of their houses With blank cups of coffee in their...
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"Tiramisu"
(April 2022)
