Cassandra Dallett and David Herrle
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Cassandra Dallett
cassandradallett@yahoo.com
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Cassandra Dallett occupies Oakland CA . She writes poetry and memoir of a counter culture childhood in Vermont and her ongoing adolescence in the San Francisco Bay Area.Cassandra has published in Slip Stream, Enizagam, The Criminal Class Review, and Sparkle And Blink among many others. A full length book of poetry WET RECKLESS will be released Spring 2014 from Manic D Press.
The following work is Copyright © 2014, and owned by Cassandra Dallett and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
I Got Lost In K-Mart or maybe it was Riches Praying For Freedom (for Mike Mike) He caught a praying mantis got a jar from the Chow Hall chased bugs to feed his friend a cup of companionship a swivel head understood confinement other inmates laughed at him an insect among animals Pelican Bay is not built he slid in sticks and leaves but he knew even though he |
David Herrle
sailthedaydream@subtletea.com
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David Herrle is the author of Abyssinia, Jill Rush and Sharon Tate and the Daughters of Joy, as well as the creator/editor of SubtleTea.com. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and children.
The following work is Copyright © 2014, and owned by David Herrle and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
The Eyes Have It, Scopophiles Is sin in the eye? (Has there ever been a reprehensible blind-from-birth person?) Seeing is deceiving. Covetousness, sex fantasies, (“The optic nerve made me do it!”) We, the seeing, are in a hall of assaultive They, the blind, are suspended For them music is a woman: dense- Sin is in the eye. We, the guilty, feel the fire. (Innocence is out of sight.)
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