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A dangling house.

Everyone was there:

woman putting on pearls,

the couple who fell to earth,

the hunger saint,

the portable man

in one form to find another,

figuring in the figure,

madame ecosse,

that man in our lives,

false friends,

the killer’s dog,

a salivating monstrous plant...

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Welcome light,

the borrowed world,

the braid,

the three o’clock bird,

the world as is,

the world of burning,

day for night.

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"Barnegat Light" by William Baer

Intriguing Noir Novel #book #reading #bookreview #readerviews

Barnegat Light William BaerAble Muse Press (2022)ISBN 9781773490991Reviewed by Miranda Johnson for Reader Views (05/2023) Jack Colt is back in the third book in William Baer’s Jack Colt Murder Mystery series, “New Jersey Noir: Barnegat Light”.  This time, Colt gets tangled up in two different cases.  First, a Paterson judge is discovered dead in his home by his daughter, Savannah Garvey.  He’s…

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The Greenhouse.

Bed of impatiens,

yellow trophies,

ordinary magic.

Flowers among the carrion.

In the clearing,

lost originals.

Is this who we are?

Wild things

sowing the wind,

heart like a wing?

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As new books of poetry go, few have made this reader happier than Greed: A Confession, by D. R. Goodman, just published by Able Muse Press. Here's a taste: FUGU The human species holds 75% of its genes in common with the puffer fish. Sometimes, there’s an inkling: a tickling behind the jaw, a tingling in awkward limbs, an involuntary blotchiness of skin in the patchy light that scatters down through treetops as through ocean; a certain notion of simple round-faced shock, spikes on end to ward off those who prey; sometimes, a touch of poison to make them pay.