Eleanor Levine
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Liza’s Tattoo
A radical mix of God
and birth exhumed from
trees and birds and skies and
man hemmed from his soul:
the means to a deity unearthed,
sewn through the veins of
skin in intermediate moments of
amity and reprieve
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Stephanie’s T-shirts
She wears LSD cats,
Jack Kerouac unshaven,
Alf and Harry Potter.
I inherit her guns and
authors, their quotes:
moments in cotton
that shrink meaning,
inflame it after the wash,
wet and drenched;
you can hang it up or
dry the size by inches;
meaning metes it;
a flash of eyes on the
chest delivers a message.
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Eleanor Levine’s writing has appeared in more than 80 publications, including Fiction, Evergreen Review, The Toronto Quarterly, Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Missing Link, Bull: Men’s Fiction, Heavy Feather Review, The Denver Quarterly, Maryland Literary Review, South Dakota Review, and The Citron Review. Her poetry collection, Waitress at the Red Moon Pizzeria, was published by Unsolicited Press (Portland, OR) in 2016. Her short story collection, Kissing a Tree Surgeon, is scheduled for publication by Guernica Editions (Canadian publisher) in 2020.
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