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Scene: 12
July 8, 2012 Beth Cortez-Neavel

Scene: 12

Beth Cortez-Neavel, Short Stories

Scene: 12 by Beth Cortez-Neavel Mom doesn’t know I know what it tastes like now. It tastes forbidden. It tastes exciting. It tastes like good

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March 1, 2012March 26, 2019 Beth Cortez-Neavel

Proper Grammar

Beth Cortez-Neavel, Regular Contributors

Proper Grammar by Beth Cortez-Neavel You said to me once that you didn’t like poetry. Music rearranges space and time, you said. It transcends language

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January 22, 2012March 26, 2019 Beth Cortez-Neavel

Living Unitarian Universalist

Beth Cortez-Neavel, Short Stories

Living Unitarian Universalist by Beth Cortez-Neavel This is how it begins, every time: whether I am at a potluck, a club, a bar, or with

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Sex Like Space
October 18, 2011 Beth Cortez-Neavel

Sex Like Space

Beth Cortez-Neavel

Sex Like Space By Beth Cortez-Neavel I am floating in a constant orgasm I am come, and I am going insane. I am on the

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August 30, 2011March 26, 2019 Beth Cortez-Neavel

To Have and To Hold

Beth Cortez-Neavel

To Have and To Hold By Beth Cortez-Neavel I want to be there in the past to hold your hand like you have held mine,

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June 23, 2011March 26, 2019 Beth Cortez-Neavel

7 a.m.

Beth Cortez-Neavel

7 a.m. By Beth Cortez-Neavel Cities abiotic concrete-filtered sunlight hitting traffic jams through sky scrapers’ grids Barely a sidewalk without footprints left in chewed- up

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May 16, 2011March 26, 2019 Beth Cortez-Neavel

Clouded Luminance

Beth Cortez-Neavel

In the night moon’s glow
the corners of the world are tucked in
and folded down
and the stars vainly whisper
their secrets lost in street-lamp invitations:

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April 27, 2011March 26, 2019 Beth Cortez-Neavel

Bloom

Beth Cortez-Neavel, Short Stories

As he swept the dead leaves into a pile by the chain-link fence separating his house from mine the fall leaves continued to spiral down around him. He didn’t look up. He didn’t stop. He didn’t even acknowledge that they were ceaselessly dropping from the trees. He just kept sweeping in slow, small strokes.

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February 3, 2011March 26, 2019 Beth Cortez-Neavel

I Have Still to Wash My Sheets

Beth Cortez-Neavel

I Have Still to Wash My Sheets By Beth Cortez-Neavel I jump at the chance to be touched now. I need that physical that hateful

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January 19, 2011March 26, 2019 Beth Cortez-Neavel

Ghost of Notes

Beth Cortez-Neavel

a cadenza that flits
from petal
to pedal
tiptoeing on half steps of air
whole
whole
half
whole
whole
whole
half.

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