Issue 12
Edge
Eve Rifkah
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The Visit
broccoli beyond the memory of green,
the memory of standing upright
slumps as though slaughtered and left.
this woman serves overcooked
not knowing when to stop
savages what is, what was.
we teaparty from place to place
unbalanced, on edge.
the new husband whiskey talking.
the woman flutters on about
nothing we can fathom.
across the table the sister
and her husband eye each other in
vows of patience.
I touch my husband's hand,
drown the meat in sauce.
~Eve Rifkah
Eve Rifkah is co-founder and artistic director of Poetry Oasis, Inc., a non-profit poetry organization and co-editor of Diner. Poems and essays have appeared in
The MacGuffin, Porcupine Press, The Worcester Review, California Quarterly, Southern New Hampshire Literary Journal and others. M.F.A. in writing, Vermont College. Email.
© 2003 by Eve Rifkah. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2003 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.