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Poetry Drawer: USA!!! by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Deborah Edgeley
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My distaste for myself turned slowly to self-hatredas the rich and powerfulkept shitting on me.Poor me Every time I stopped at a gas pump or a supermarketand looked at the jacked-up prices as I filled my cartor the tank of … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Self by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Deborah Edgeley
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The core of the self is a magnetwhich pulls in the physical worldand the stuff of human nature,good and bad.Once trauma is caught there, it is hard to dislodge,the power of the magnet being strong In this space occupied by … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: There I Go by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Deborah Edgeley
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Here I am,on the deck of a ship. It’s 1933,and the passengers who surround me are waving, frantically.I’m afraid that their arms will fall off and I will be calledto provide emergency services.I’m a doctor. At least I harbour the … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Like the Dinosaurs: Caught on a Face by Mitchel Montagna

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Deborah Edgeley
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Like the Dinosaurs Evening came, and never passed throughIt clung to the valley like smokeThe heat settled in and no earthly wind blewA layer of clouds swiftly broke. People looked strange in the dim purple lightTheir pallor and features were … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Sunny: Japanese Beetles: Bad Dreams by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Posted on September 27, 2022 by Deborah Edgeley
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Sunny Sunny thought that he was the Birdmanof Alcatrazbut it was only five months in the county slammer The day that his girlfriend, Miss Sunshine, came to retrieve himfrom his dank cellwas dark and gloomybut their two children, the girl, … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Mother Abandoned by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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After my father abandoned herMother moved back to the countryto live with her sisterin the house in which they grew up My aunt was feebleas she’d been in childhoodbut my mother was strongfrom all the farm labour she’d doneand still … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Nuked by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Posted on October 3, 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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She finally moved from Fukushimafled its failed, toxic nuclear plantI wasn’t close to her,don’t want to be close to her I get nervous when she moves toward me, arms widewith a smile unnaturally brightlike the ladies who painted radium on … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Trowel by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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I asked Princess Di to danceShe was biking across the heathin a glum mood wearing an expressionthat might have suitedThomas Hardy In fact, she would have taken up my offerShe would have danced with meWho knows what else she might … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Braganzas by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Posted on June 21, 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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If they were going to put me in the nuthouse I was going to need my collection of Bertita Harding novels They had power– the stories of these heroes would keep me alive: Karl and Zita of Hungary Austria’s Franz … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Buzz by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois

Posted on June 7, 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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I grabbed a can of wasp spray from my wife’s hand She was a farm girl and stronger than me She grabbed the can back and hit me in the head with it Wasps had colonized the attic of our … Continue reading →

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