Deborah DeNicola Biography
Deborah DeNicola is the author of six books, most recently Original Human published (2010) by WordTech Communications, and her memoir The Future That Brought Her Here (2009) . Deborah edited the anthology Orpheus & Company; Contemporary Poems on Greek Mytholog, from UPNE press. Previous books include Where Divinity Begins from Alice James Books, and four chapbooks, Inside Light, Psyche Revisited, The Harmony of the Next and Rainmakers. Deborah was awarded a National Endowment Fellowship. Among other awards she won The Briar Cliff Review contest, The Packingtown Review’s Analytical Essay Award in 2008, Carpe Articulum’s Poetry Award in 2010 and the Santa Barbara Poetry Contest in 2008. She’s been published in Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Antioch Review among other journals and in many anthologies including The Best of The Net 2008 Anthology, edited by Dorianne Laux. Her short story “come Alone” won the Carol Bly Award from Writersrisingup.com Deborah’s latest manuscript is Wonderbloom.
There was a presence before the stone.
A pressure so much larger than human
wounds. My mind let go into the crags
of sorrow and I grew
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Hardly a thing I can hold in my hand.
But I recall my small hand
on the polished mahogany table
out on the sun porch where I sometimes
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Lord, life after half a century drags a Uhaul behind it.
A truck load of possessions that don’t love me back.
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It's as if he knows how close he's always been to Spirit.
As if your hand might pass through the numen of his voice
and a little shadow shiver on the auditorium wall.
If you asked I bet he'd glance away with a half smile and husky
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