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Air: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell

by Anne Babson

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“For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” – Psalm 16:10

PCBs on the
Muddy bed of the Hudson
Lift out.  The shad feed.

Lake Placid’s acid
Rain pockmarks stones, then oddly
Disappears.  Where?  How?

Strip-mined Nevada
Mountains turn woody again
Overnight – jackpot!

The prairie overtakes old
Cornfields presaged only by
Crop circles Thursday.

The sequoia trees
Thicken like chest hair on a
Californian teen.

The Mississippi
Morning mist clears revealing
Drinkable water.

Birds, beasts, plants, insects
Diversify their holdings
In America.

Redemption looks like
A tree frog laying eggs in
The pitch-sticky swamp.

Anne Babson, a Coney Island poet recently transplanted to Mississippi, was nominated for a Pushcart for work in The Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal and Illya’s Honey. She has won awards from Columbia, Atlanta Review, Grasslands Review, and other reviews.  She has four chapbooks, over a hundred journal publications, and is featured on one compilation hip-hop CD– The Cornerstone (New Lew Music, 2007).   Catch her blog about her North-South culture shock at www.carpetbaggersjournal.wordpress.com.

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The Madhatter Party

 

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Rachel Bloom | is an actress, writer and comedian based out of NYC. She graduated from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts in 2009 with a B.F.A in drama, having studied with the CAP 21 musical theater studio, Experimental Theater Wing, and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. At NYU, she was also the director of Hammerkatz, NYU’s premier sketch comedy group. Rachel has studied improv under Shannon O’Neill, Anthony King, Zach Woods, Chris Gethard and Michael Delaney. She has also studied sketch under Eric Drysdale. Rachel performs standup all around New York City and hosts a standup show called “Annette Funicello’s Beach Party” every last Monday of the month at National Underground. She is also a member of the improv group Mastodon Mattingly. She really likes the show “Frasier.” (UCBComedy.com) Join Rachel as she performs stand up at the Moon Milk Review 2010 Mad Hatter Party.

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