MIPOesias ~ ISSN 1543-6063 Volume 17 ~ Summer 2004

WHEN I WAS IN LOVE

Lust and the room grew

small as zero.

So I escaped everyday

to my silly restaurant job

watched Santo,

in the kitchen peeling shrimp,

extracting blue veins from flesh,

with the kind of grace

you lacked.

There’s no salvation

in distractions,

only moments

of “what ifs” driving me

back to the ocean

to search the seaweed

and sewage.

Clawless crabs, gull bones, syringes.

Blue bottle jellyfish, deflated

like balloons the morning after a party.

I carry them home

set them on the bathroom sink next to the soap dish.

You don’t want to touch them.

Terri Carrion was concieved in Venezuela, born in New York, raised in Los Angeles and currently lives in Hollywood, Florida. She is assistant editor for Big Bridge magazine online (Bigbridge.org) and is this year’s director of FIU’s Study Abroad Program-Creative Writing in Dublin. Terri’s other poems have or will appear in Vox, Slipstream, Pearl, Mangrove, Hanging Loose, The Cream City Review, Penumbra, Paper Tiger, Tigertail, Street Miami, The Miami Sun Post monthly arts section Mad Love and online at BigBridge.org, Jackmagazine.com, and Poeticinhalations.com. Her photography will be featured in the next issues of Jack magazine online, Dead Drunk Dublin and in print in Gulf Stream magazine.

Poetry
Michael Rothenberg
Diane Thiel
Nick Carbo
Mia Leonin
Michael Hettich
Campbell McGrath
Kelle Groom
Steve Kronen
Kemel Zaldivar
Pris Campbell
Michael-Earle Carlton
George Murphy
Howard Camner
Geoffrey Philp
Terri Carrion
Nancy Knutson
Jonathan Rose
Barbra Nightingale
Ian Krieger
James Brock
Amy Serrano Zorrilla
Denise Duhamel
Virgil Suarez
Micro-Fiction & Shorts
Terri Carrion
Diane Thiel
Artists
Artist Intro
Ivonne Bess
Diego Quiros
John Canning
Jeff Filipski
Arlene Magloire
Cassandra Gordon-Harris
Holly Picano
TRES
Mia Leonin
Terri Carrion
Richard Blanco
Interviews
Campbell McGrath
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