Local News from Someplace Else
Marjorie Maddox
Local News from Someplace Else
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To Gary, my safe haven
Acknowledgments
The author gratefully acknowledges the following publications in which many of the poems first appeared.
Adanna: “After Having Children, We Reintroduce Ourselves to Bicycles,” “Goldfish”
American Jones Building & Maintenance. Ed. Von G. Binuia. Concord, NH: Missing Spoke Press, 1999: “Settled,” “Still Life of House in Late March”
Arabesques: “Extra Towels,” “First Snow”
BigCityLit: “Photographing the Spa for the Color Brochure”
Blackwater Review: “Gluttony”
Blueline: “Ithaca Winter”
Boxcar Poetry Review: “Appropriate”
Christianity & Literature: “June 1st Liturgy,” “Minersville Diner,” “Still Life of House in Late March”
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Eds. Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple. State College, PA: Penn State University Press, 2005: “Pennsylvania September: The Witnesses”
Drexel On-Line: “Appropriate”
Drive, She Said: “Renting”
Essential Love. Ed. Ginny Lowe Connors. West Hartford, CN: Poetworks/Grayson Books, 2000: “The Time Is Midnight”
Fiddleblack: “Real Estate Sign”
The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home. Ed. Jim Perlman. Duluth, MN: Holy Cow! Press, 2013: “Settled”
Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita. Eds. Philip C. Kolin and Susan Swartwout. Cape Girardeau, MO: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2006: “Jazz Memorial”
In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare. Eds. David Starkey and Paul J. Willis. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005: “Cancer Diagnosis”
Inkwell: “Montoursville, PA”
Inspirit: “Pennsylvania September: The Witnesses”
Literary Mama: “Afternoon Nap”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Project: “Woman, 91, Frozen to Floor”
The Mom Egg: “First Layout”
The Montserrat Review: “Indelible”
New Verse News: “Reoccurring Storms”
North Carolina Humanities Review: “Conversion”
North Chicago Review: “Woman, 91, Frozen to Floor”
The Other Journal: “Nine Alive!”
Petroglyph: “Learning to Weather”
phati’tude Literary Magazine: “Jazz Memorial”
Reconfigurations: “Abstract”
Remembering the Future. Eds. Chris Keller and Andrew David. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2008: “Nine Alive!”
Runes: “Death Defying,” 2004 Finalist for Runes Poetry Award, judged by Jane Hirschfield
The Same: “Anachronism,” “Backwards Barn Raising,” “H. G. Who?” “Homecoming”
Say the Word: Poems on Joy, 2002 Contest Finalist, judged by David St. John: “Extra Towels”
So to Speak: “Twin Infants at the Olan Mills Portrait Studio”
Standing on the Ceiling. Ed. and Illus. Joanne Fox. Sausalito, CA: Foxfold Press, 1998: “Afternoon Nap,” “Treat”
Thin Air: “Donation”
Verse Wisconsin: “Fatal Shock Mystery: Experts Look for Answers after Tragedy”
Watershed: “Montoursville, PA”
The Women’s Review of Books: “39,” “Swimming Pregnant at the YWCA,” “Woman, 91, Frozen to Floor”
The Postcard
Summer is going quickly. We are
very busy. My brother and his family all
died in a plane crash. Hope to see
you soon when we fly that way . . .
What we scrunch on a 3 x 5
wants happiness as bland
as the heat waving at us
from beneath its sunglasses and umbrella,
simplicity so boring we relax in it,
order another drink.
But somewhere between
the Eiffel Tower and Empire State Building,
between your miss you’s and wish you were here’s,
fact slips in, inked lightning across skies
as bright as a Las Vegas smile.
In a postcard of Sunset Strip
amidst a list of Hollywood celebrities:
“The plane was the same
as JFK, jr.’s.” And on the backside
of
