{"id":4983,"date":"2017-07-12T03:09:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T03:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2017-10-15T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T14:12:10","slug":"four-poems-paul-genega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=4983","title":{"rendered":"THREE POEMS – Paul Genega"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR A FRACKING GOOD TIME<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a general consensus among scientists
\nthat the spike in Oklahoma\u2019s earthquake activity
\nhas been triggered by disposal wells used to dispose
\nof waste from oil and gas drilling operations. <\/em><\/p>\n

Is their seismology
\nbigger than yours
\n <\/p>\n

do they get more
\nkick and buckle
\n 
\nout of earth, wider
\nsmiles from fissures
\n 
\nstronger roll
\nand rain of rock?
\n 
\nSend today for
\na no fault solution
\n 
\nto your state\u2019s shame
\nScott Pruitt\u2019s
\n 
\nOklahoma
\nEarthquake Kit.
\n 
\nGuaranteed to put
\ntremors back in
\n 
\nthe humdrum
\nquicken what had
\n 
\nslackened, give your
\nbucks a bang. No
\n 
\nmuss or fuss to cuss –
\nyou just add water.
\n <\/p>\n

\n

IN MIGRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Swyer Preserve
\n Stuyvesant, New York<\/em>
\n 
\nInside mud skin
\nheavy winter
\n 
\nrun-off quickens
\nthe creek into froth
\n 
\nWet-footed
\nforest offering up
\n 
\nskunk cabbage
\nanemones
\n 
\nthe seductive
\nblush of new vines
\n 
\nA phoebe calls
\nfrom a budding
\n 
\nalder where
\none year ago
\n 
\ntoday stretched
\nover the sibilance
\n 
\nI held a wake
\non the water
\n 
\nand let fly
\nmy sister\u2019s ashes<\/p>\n

\n

DOG AUBADE <\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The doe scissors
\naway from us
\n 
\nyou, as always
\na yard or two ahead
\n 
\nfree of the lead
\ngay tail waving
\n 
\nNot so shy
\nthese deer fly
\n 
\norbiting our heads
\nlike hungry halos
\n 
\nI swat
\nYou sprint
\n 
\nAt the far end
\nof the field
\n 
\na fawn slips
\nthrough silver birch
\n 
\nThe sun rises
\nA welt rises
\n 
\nCrushed flies
\nstud my matted hair<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Paul Genega has published five chapbooks and five full-length collections of poetry. His sixth full-length collection, Sculling on the Lethe<\/em>, will be launched by Salmon Poetry (Ireland) at the AWP Convention in Tampa, March, 2018. Over a forty-plus year career, his poetry has garnered numerous awards, including the \u201cDiscovery Award,\u201d five Pushcart Prize nominations and an individual fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work has appeared in leading magazines and journals such as New York Quarterly, Poetry, the New York Times, The Nation,<\/em> and The Paterson Literary Review.<\/em> As a playwright, he has co-authored two works with Emmy Award winning composer\/filmmaker Patricia Lee Stotter: Haven\u2019t We Met?, which was presented at the Writers Theater in New York, and Paging Doctor Faustus, which is currently being readied for workshop production. In 2014, Genega assumed directorship of Three Mile Harbor Press upon the death of its founding editor Antje Katcher. He taught for many years at Bloomfield College, New Jersey where he founded the creative writing program and served as Chair of Humanities. His legacy continues at Bloomfield through the Genega Endowed Scholarships in Creative Writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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