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L I Z   H U N T I N G T O N
Liz Huntington's poems have appeared in the Red Cedar Review, the Echo, Phoebe and the Literary Gazette. She has produced several Read Aloud events, including the Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration Reading of “Song of Myself,” Cuentos De Mi Gente: A Bilingual Reading of Modern Latin American Writers, and the Emily Dickinson Ensemble. Her book length collection of poems is Whatever You Want.

 

 
from  H i G H   W A T E R M A R K   S A L O [O] N  volume 1 number 5

from Vault

Our living in this world of things, Love,
sometimes takes shape as a thing, a something sensible and small,
the misplaced charm that can keep straying lives touchable.
And I’m waiting for you again, this time in the coffee shop.
There seems to be a bee floundering in my coffee 
and the waiter is too busy to bother about this.
The bee and I agree that we are both frightened;
the bee, because he will drown.
Myself, I am afraid of being stung and because, 
though I have tried and tried, indifference is not possible, 
not even in this shiny, meaninglessly immaculate place 
where all anyone wants is a clean napkin and a refill.