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Our Lady of Roosevelt Avenue

11/1/2015

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This poem was just published in Waterways October 2015 issue, Vol 36, No. 4.
ALSO, this poem was published on the Harbinger Asylum website in April 2016!

Our Lady of Roosevelt Avenue
 

Night swimming
through the sweaty haze
of an ice cream tangle
your body, mine
dancing their exchange
in summer’s darkness.
I enter night’s hot mouth
still feeling the pressure of
your hands, your scents
joining echoes of the
thousand midnight secrets
shirtless restless masses
keep
while praying
to their fan blades
for salvation
as subway dins cut descants
through bar noise
and old radios,
cooked sidewalk garbage
bucks and grinds
with roasting chicken
gets tapped out by watermelon,
sleepless souls in bed
change soaking pillows
for the cool sweet mercy
of a Virgin
…sure, she’ll rise up
pale and holy
from this dirty street
but not tonight
oh please god, not tonight.

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    Heather Lee Rogers

    I write and perform poetry.  I have been published on many websites and print publications at various times throughout my life. I live in NYC where I also create as an actor. Acting makes me forget that I'm a poet for long stretches of time.  But I mean to work on that here: I'll be posting old poems, new poems, and everything in between. Thanks for visiting.  Enjoy!

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