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week of July 17 - 23, 2006
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers and Peter Schwartz
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Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
zzbaggins@msn.com
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Jeffrey Spahr-Summers is a poet and photographer now living in Longmont, Colorado. His poems have appeared in Hammers, Strong Coffee, Erie, San Fernando Poetry Journal, Newsletter Inago, The Dallas Review, The poetry Victims, Kritya, The International Poetry Project, Unlikely Stories, Black Medina, Poetry Magazine, Abalone Moon, The Coffee Press Journal, Lily Literary Journal, Poems For You and twice previously on The Poetry Super Highway. Jeff's poems appear in 3 anthologies, Chicago Saloon Poets, Step Into The Light and Voices Israel 2005. He has published 2 books, Fear of Heights (1984) and The Cherry Poems (2006). Jeff is the Editor and Publisher of The Poetry Victims.
Visit Jeffrey on the web here: http://spahr-summers.spaces.msn.com/The following work is Copyright © 2006, and owned by Jeffrey Spahr-Summers and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Never satisfied
The whiners
Always Primping
Looking in mirrors
Screaming for attention
Always wanting
To re-invent themselves
Rise out of the ashes
Presto
You know
Go Phoenix
The Bogeyman
Mother needs a handicap room
with a refrigerator
for her insulin.
Mother comes from fairvale
but yesterday
we were in memphis.
can I wait in the lobby while
Mother gets dressed?
Mother loves the room.
Mother loves the restaurant
you suggested and
she asked me to thank you.
Mother wants a 4am wake up call.
Mother is
i am a light sleeper.
Matisse's dog
Old red belly
is napping
sunning himself
sunny side up
a splash on the patio
white and blue
and gray
he is
snoring I think he
lounges in the nude
in the sunshine
his legs splayed
like leaning fence posts
his eyes like saucers
jet black yet
complicatedly
yellow
Peter Schwartz
pupil@watchtheeye.com