Carrie Magness Radna and Michael A. Griffith
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Carrie Magness Radna
ambikamag@msn.com
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Born in Norman, Oklahoma, Carrie Magness Radna is an archival audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a singer, a lyricist-songwriter, and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in the Oracular Tree, Muddy River Poetry Review, Mediterranean Poetry, First Literary Review-East, The Poetic Bond VIII (Willowdown Books), Shot Glass Journal (issue 27), and will be published in Nomad’s Choir, Polarity E-Magazine and a yet untitled Transcendent Poetry Anthology from Cosmographia in Summer 2019. Her first chapbook, Conversations with dead composers at Carnegie Hall (Flutter Press), was published in January 2019.
The following work is Copyright © 2019, and owned by Carrie Magness Radna and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Lucky stars/Afternoon colorsI. [Imagined]: Missed the good luck C’mon Unicorn Girl: but my man needs to work, (No, I didn’t make it to the island tonight; II. [Real]: Patterns and colors hover by I blame the tint of my sunglasses The Queensboro Bridge turned I was almost run over I chased the pink light The light is now fading. The lights upon the Bridge (My Dad and I once built Too bad, Dad. I enjoy these places On Roosevelt Island, Now lucky
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Michael A. Griffith
mgriffith123@yahoo.com
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Michael A. Griffith’s chapbooks Bloodline (The Blue Nib) and Exposed (Soma Publishing and Hidden Constellation Press) were released in fall 2018. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poetry in October 2018. He lives near Princeton, NJ and teaches at Raritan Valley Community College. He is Poetry Editor (US/Canada) for The Blue Nib magazine.
The following work is Copyright © 2019, and owned by Michael A. Griffith and may not be distributed or reprinted in any form whatsoever without written permission from the author.
Satan’s Toy CarLet me tell you, Hot day, Complaining did no good, Day kept on limping by, What did come was Satan. Pulled up in a long red car. He waves, comes up to the porch But he was still a bad, bad man. Says he’s got all kinds of stuff for sale Can he come on in and show her? Well, he comes right up on the porch and Mama says my name like a angry pastor would That white suit, black shoes what never touched Kept trying to get Mama to He leaned in close to her He smiled real, real big Then Mama, she stopped her fanning, Slap loud as a whip crack! Yes sir, he go storming back to his big red car He drives away real loud and there’s a big breeze. Day later I fetched Satan’s toy car,
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