Lucia Perillo Poems

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1.
Early Cascade

I couldn't have waited. By the time you return
it would have rotted on the vine.
So I cut the first tomato into eighths,
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2.
The Garbo Cloth

Her daughter wrote back to say my friend had died
(my friend to whom I wrote a letter maybe twice a year).
From time to time I'd pictured her amid strange foliage
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3.
The Second Slaughter

Achilles slays the man who slayed his friend, pierces the corpse
behind the heels and drags it
behind his chariot like the cans that trail
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4.
Transcendentalism

The professor stabbed his chest with his hands curled like forks
before coughing up the question
that had dogged him since he first read Emerson:
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5.
Two of the Furies

The old woman in the parking lot
wields her walker not unspryly. Gray hair
lank and without style, hanging
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6.
A Romance

I saw a child set down her binder like a wall
through the candy bin at the Corner Luncheonette
so she could scoop out gum while she spoke to the clerk—
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