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VESSELS
—Stephanie's Story
Your mama's been resting
peacefully
in the closet
for almost three years.
It's time.
Time for her
to be free.
Let's take her out
traveling.
After your daddy died
she traveled some,
shipboard romances,
affairs to remember,
promises.
That week at the Bridge of Sighs,
each day's end spent
gazing into dark Italian eyes,
flashes of laughter,
peeled-onion goodbyes.
And promises.
You promised.
We promised.
I purchased two tickets.
Sleeping most of the way,
you cradled the Limoges vase,
clasping it close,
as you clasped
our stillborn son.
Ashes speckle
the canal's surface
as the last gliding gondolas
slide on sunset's right,
red-blue rays still in sight.
Limoges lances the skin
of the lagoon.
Poem
© Jonathan Rose 2004. All rights reserved.
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Jonathan
Rose is many things: attorney, writer, translator, teacher and
editor. More than 100 of his poems have been published or
anthologized and he has written more than 600 biographical
epigrams, or "roses". His translations have been praised both
here and abroad. He once read with Angel Cuadra and translated
some of the Cuban poet's work. He translated a series of short
poems that accompanied Professor Carlos Miguel Suarez Radillo's
travel books. He contributed to the Poetry in Motion Project
in 2003 and to the project combining poetry, healing and
loss at South Florida's Writers' Conference in 2003. He
volunteers as a guide at the Miami Art Museum and edits
and publishes the cultural arts calendar Cultural Bulletin.
He is officer/director/member of various cultural associations
including the National Writers Association, Poetry Society of
America, Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation and the Society of
Poets (formerly, South Florida Poetry Institute). He has led
poetry workshops and served as one of the hosts at Miami Book
Fair. His poem Whisperings recently appeared in
the food anthology, Irrepressible Appetites, and his play
Interview was produced by the Public Theatre last June. He edits
the poetry journal of Accent: Miami.
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Portrait
of Jonathan Rose © Henry Denander 2004. All rights reserved.
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