Issue 2

January/February 1999

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Poetry Page

Poems by Julie Geanakakis and Doug Holder

JULIE GEANAKAKIS A Short “Notice to Quit” (A Love Note to Loveless Landleeches) Every step could be measured by the Golden Rule but something falls short in this Age of Iron where mint-struck hearts, petrified for profit do unto others as they will turning out tenants whose coppers dwindle down as rents rise and the still silent earth subjugated, subdivided into colonies of capital where workers mine their bodies’ worth of ore for cold skeletal towers where they will never live Home ground lost and love as well, they do unto us

DOUG HOLDER A Dog Stalking A Squirrel In Harvard Yard How much academic distance is there? We are riveted as much as the dog. Cunningly watching the innocent mastication of his prey the lethal, studied steps inching closer to the object of his blood lust. We make it a point to loudly tell each other how we want this little, furry, gray creature to escape the trap of his jaws... But don't we protest a bit too much?