Jim Bertolino &
Anita K. Boyle

THE PORCH

Sweet and sour
is the tumble, bitter
is the slide.
                 Turquoise
advances quietly.

The music of water over
pebbles.
             A woman hums
on a porch,
shucking corn.




Jim's information

Location: Bellingham Washington Email: James.Bertolino@wwu.edu Website: http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/bertolino.htm Publications: Ploughshares, Poetry, Paris Review, Epoch, Partisan Review, Northwest Review, Seattle Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Notre Dame Review, Kansas Quarterly, Wilderness, The Amicus Journal, etc. Books: First Credo, Precinct Kali & The Gertrude Spicer Story, New & Selected Poems, Making Space For Our Living, 26 Poems From Snail River, Greatest Hits:1965-2000, Goat-Footed Turtle Awards: Quarterly Review of Literature Book Award, Book-of-the-Month Club Poetry Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Ohio Arts Council grant, the Discovery Award

Naming what it comes to / october The Porch the difference between tea Hand in Hand The Blown Fuse Death Poem Moth While Reading Your Poems A Cat's Lives Day of Reckoning my cousin jesse lee On Moving Out Math in Leon County Turning Sixty Five in Montana Knowing Fire On the Occasion of My Cat's First Birthday Directions Evidence to the Contrary

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