Linda’s story “Take Note Please” appears in the new anthology titled FRENZY, 60 Stories of Sudden Sex, published by by Cleis Press and edited by Alison Tyler. Available through Amazon and Cleis Press
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POSTCARD OF A NAKED MAN, March Street Press, 2003, poetry chapbook
Illustration by Linda
ON A POSTCARD OF A NAKED MAN
lying on the beach, a small sombrero
covering his face from the sun,
a taller, pointed one on his groin, I scrawl
Hi honey. I’m staying
across from the beach. I may go
to Mexico again tomorrow. I miss you!
I don’t write Wish you were here, nor
that in the bus to the border crossing
at San Ysidro…
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DEAR JIM, Main Street Rag, 2003, poetry chapbook.
Cover design by Linda
DEAR JIM
Thirty years is a long time, Morrison-
my mantra, my shaman, my sweet
erotic nihilist. It’s too weird to think
you’d show up panting
at my back door, and I’m no longer
the lone, braless freak in a high
school full of fresh-faced cornhuskers,
no more the sweet sixteen leather-whip
whose kohl-lined, bloodshot eyes saw your face
in every Rorschach blot, who believed
she alone could light your fire…
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HEARTLANDS LITERARY JOURNAL
Urban Midwest 1997 Poetry Chapbook Winner
12 poems in a section titled In the Curve of Time and Space within an issue of Heartlands which also features work by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jim Daniels, Larry Smith and others.
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ALMOST TOUCHING, A Reader for Women and Men
Published by Plain View Press, 1996. Editor, Margo LaGattuta
“There is a cycle in these poems and stories taken as a whole, a movement from burial of one kind or another to an arduous blossoming. This book demonstrates how art can derive from life, how we are located somewhere within the powerful memories of childhood, the struggle to overcome, and our hopes for the future.” Edward Haworth-Hoeppner, Professor of English, Poet-in-Residence, Oakland University
Almost Touching
Available from Amazon for $17.95
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