R J Hembree - Writers' Village University

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4 She glides slowly at first, this slight figure skater, traces an orbit that tightens with speed on a sweet-smelling rink, freshly mown green flings out her arms, spins on the spot, stirs up the soft grass, giggles as world whirls, twirled by her fingers and blurred by the swirl in her delicate ears a spiralling journey above the park benches, above time and place -flies ever faster until she collapses, crash-lands in a confusion of limbs, a splash of bright laughter. David Nourse is a retired Australian bureaucrat and former computer journalist who lives in a quiet suburb of Canberra, Australia's national capital. Dave has done graduate work in English, linguistics and computing, and belatedly took up poetry as a pleasant change from writing officialese and software reviews. He has previously published poems in Loch Raven Review and The Barefoot Muse.
The sky drops, and I coordinate my dress with premature funk. My slippers are even fuzzy black. I’ve felt the change in your day-old corpse skin, the snuff of your eyes. Your walk slower, gait longer, lower to the ground even. Parts of you expand; others emaciate. Neither of us wanted to say the C word, Irish superstitions paramount. The day you left your oxfords on the table, I whispered death is in the air. You threw the black intruder at me, laughing, silly girl. We’ve done everything: blood tests, x-rays, biopsies, ultrasounds, homeopathic remedies, even couples reiki where I held onto the intrusive mass with both hands, performing hand to chest. And we’re left with this. This heart-stopping, fist-punching cement, diagnosis. Nothing left to do but pray; finger onyx rosary beads as you pack up your things, hide any unmentionables. Meanwhile, the sky is falling. Kathy Kubik is the author of four books of poetry; her most recent collection is entitled Universal (Moon Journal Press). Her poems and short stories have appeared in publications such as: The Mississippi Review, MiPOesias, Aoife's Kiss, Lily, Hiss Quarterly, Poems Niederngasse, Wicked Alice and The Mad Hatters' Review. She is currently working on her first novel. Samples of her writing can be found on her website, www.kathykubik.com. 5
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