Peg Padnos

Registered nurse and poet living in Holland, Michigan

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Cab Jazz

Those thorny streets
hum like dissonant notes
staccato slurs
in this traffic tattoo--
quavers rampling
Eighth Avenue

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in bed

a long thin needle
swims through muslin clouds
crawls belly's hump
pierces skin in sleep
tears through venous blood
and harpoons the very heart

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mountain

snowboards' sere gutterals thrash
their Anglo-Saxon lines
antler tongue-blades crunch
through consonants and bone