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Over The Dust
expectant voyage
in a hungry red eye
of the third world poet
seeing the first
of a starving
obituary
while the second
lieutenant on a veranda
and his ninth wife
feast on
goblets
oozing blood
the lean poet death
sentenced
without laurels
four gunshots
in an embraced
sunshine.
Bio:
B.Z. NIDITCH is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and teacher.
His work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including: Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Art; The Literary Review; Denver Quarterly; Hawaii Review,; Le Guepard (France); Kadmos (France); Prism International; Jejune (Czech Republic); Leopold Bloom (Budapest); Antioch Review; and Prairie Schooner, among others.
He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
(author retains copyright)
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