POETRY IN COMMON,
& THE GREEN LINE CAFE
POETRY SERIES
in association with PEN America
will present a poetry reading
on Gun Control and Sexual Harassment
We would love it if you would read for five minutes,
your own work, or another’s, or a combination of both
Tuesday, March 20, 7-8:30 PM
THE GREEN LINE CAFE IS LOCATED
AT 45TH & LOCUST STREETS
PHILADELPHIA, PA
(Please note the address, there are)
other Green Line Café locations.)
greenlinecafe.com
This Event Is Free
Hosted BY LEONARD GONTAREK
Email or text me: 215.808.9507
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PEACE/WORKS,
POETRY IN COMMON,
& THE GREEN LINE CAFE
POETRY SERIES
in association with PEN America
will present a Poetry Reading
on Gun Control and Sexual Harassment
Hosted by Leonard Gontarek
GREEN LINE CAFE
45TH & LOCUST STREETS
PHILADELPHIA, PA
This Event Is Free
(Please note the address, there are
other Green Line Café locations.)
greenlinecafe.com
If you would like to read a poem
in the open reading, sign up in
advance: gontarek9@earthlink.net
HERE, BULLET
If a body is what you want,
then here is bone and gristle and flesh.
Here is the clavicle-snapped wish,
the aorta’s opened valves, the leap
thought makes at the synaptic gap.
Here is the adrenaline rush you crave,
that inexorable flight, that insane puncture
into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish
what you’ve started. Because here, Bullet,
here is where I complete the word you bring
hissing through the air, here is where I moan
the barrel’s cold esophagus, triggering
my tongue’s explosives for the rifling I have
inside of me, each twist of the round
spun deeper, because here, Bullet,
here is where the world ends, every time.
Brian Turner
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