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The Memory of Your Voice
Remember the Kodak moment
you snapped of Sandra Nadel
and me at Mr. Komicoff’s Ballet class?
Two arabesque flames, Sandra’s toe
shoes soar above the mirror
touching Sirius, her arms and neck
covered modest, tight and warm. I
am transparent, in Aphrodite’s off-shoulder
tunic. My white cotton panties conceal
yet flaunt. You say, "lift your leg higher,
higher, higher up." Limbs spasm and fall
short of the Milky Way.
A smile then frowns. "I can’t.
Stop.........
Please Stop."
Cruel years have passed, modest
cotton sheets shroud your body.
Harsh words shrivel like fading sunsets
and lost letters never sent. Hope jades
waiting another lifetime for you
to whisper with love that eight-letter word
"Daughter."
Clarissa Jakobsons: Artist, poet, and associate editor of the Arsenic Lobster Poetry Magazine,
Clarissa teaches art and writing classes at a local community college and
conducts private workshops. Her love of art and words also weave into unique
artistic books. Don't be surprised to see Clarissa kicking sandcastles and
painting Provincetown dunes, climbing majestic Berkeley hills, igniting Tai
Chi poems from the towers of Notre Dame, lifting weights on Treasure Island,
or walking under an Ohio crescent moon. Publications include: Qarrtsiluni,
The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Wicked Alice, DreamSeeker
Magazine, Literary Mama, etc. Clarissa is an avid reader of her poems in the
states as well as in Europe.
Email: Clarissa Jakobsons
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