#art heifetz

[seaanimalonland]

Mayan Frieze | Art Heifetz

like figures in a Mayan frieze

the borders hem us in I can’t tell where you leave off and I begin I eat to satisfy your hunger you drink to quench my thirst your slightest wound marks my skin with tiny blue blossoms let me take your troubles and turn them into swallows that circle round the chimney and blend into the night. via fluttering-slips

[cahoodaloodaling]

For this week's ‪#‎throwback‬, we wow at Art Heifetz's little worlds, published in our Family Issue.

Read the beautiful poem here: http://cahoodaloodaling.com/issue-7-little-worlds-by-art-heifetz/

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[storyacious]

#Poetry Tuesday and you've never heard the story of Jonah and the Whale quite like this: 'Never Cross Da Boss' by Art Heifetz. Enjoy.

(Lucky Luciano’s version of the Jonah story)

Never cross Da Boss. He asks him to go down to Ninevah, set the gang there straight, no rough stuff, just a little par-lay, and Jonah says just kill them all.

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[storyacious]

#Poetry Tuesday and we have a rather funny one this time by Art Heifetz: persuasion. Dark humor is Art's forte, if you've read some of his other work on Storyacious. And this poem about a married couple is sheer entertainment. 

after thirty years of finding his dirty dishes in conspicuous places his wife appeared one morning with a dual-action pistol

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[eunoiareview]

Old Vines

we’re old vines you and I our best vintages a pretty memory but our fruit retains some sweetness yet the first frost hasn’t touched it it’s ready to be plucked and pressed into the second wine, la piquette, consumed in grey clay pitchers by the farmers in the village sitting in their stuccoed kitchens in their muddy boots and overalls it lacks the richer notes of for example the grands crus of…

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Sometimes I Dream a Poem

Sometimes I Dream a Poem

Sometimes I dream a poem. It rubs its eyes and wakes up with the perfect features of a newborn child. I rock it in my arms and think of a good name. More often, I wrestle with the words like Jacob with his angel, trying to pin them down before the vision fades. I sound out the lines a hundred times, fishing for the melody which swims elusively beneath the meaning. To the joggers in the park, I am…

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mayan frieze

like figures in a Mayan frieze the borders hem us in I can't tell where you leave off and I begin I eat to satisfy your hunger you drink to quench my thirst your slightest wound marks my skin with tiny blue blossoms let me take your troubles and turn them into swallows that circle round the chimney and blend into the night. Art Heifetz

[lexiconpolaroid]

A FABLE

Still from "A Fable" by Haikal Aziz, based on the poem of the same title, by Art Heifetz, from the forthcoming issue.

"An anxious Jew, always waiting / for the other shoe to drop"

Read the rest of "A Fable" in the next issue of Lexicon Polaroid, out March 1, 2014. You can preorder a copy here, &/or come to the release party on March 13!

The party / reading / screening is happening at Reading Frenzy / March 13, 2014 / 7pm. Check out the Facebook event here.