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the one by the beach was as big as a bird +
on drowning in a river or probably just a canal
poetry by nicole kuwik
published 23 january 2008
originally published by retort magazine
 
verse live | volume 1 • number 9
 
"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls." -Voltaire
 
published April 2007 to January 2009 | Verse Live centers on the publication of new poetry.
 
 

Nicole Kuwik spends a lot of time with a fish named Mortimer, and occasionally sleeps on floors with a big fuzzy cat. She thinks all people who write poetry should develop a taste for apple brandy. Some of her recent work can be seen in places such as The GUT, Word Slaw, Silenced Press, Haggard and Halloo, The Foliate Oak, and Origami Condom.
 
 
Buz Kiefer (eMail) is a photographer who has has 30 galleries and 1230 images online. In his words: "Looking is something altogether apart from seeing. We see with the intellect and the heart and, of the two, the heart has the clearer understanding. It is more attuned to the essential, for it knows far more than our rational processes permit." (all rights reserved)
 
 
 

 
 
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Broken Window
by Buz Kiefer
 
 
the one by the beach was as big as a bird
 
 

All these dying butterflies
are really getting to me


To see them flailing about
on the concrete
brings visions of broken windows
and germinating seeds, and
for a second I believe I might
actually
do something.
 
 
•••
 
 
on drowning in a river or probably just a canal
 
 

I watch the MASON jar
fill up like a car under water
and wonder
if I
would be one of the people
you hear about on the news
who cut the seat belt
in time


Yes, this enters my head
as I grasp the butterknife
to scrape the label


But all I really wanted was
something clean and simple
to drink from.
 

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