Greetings!
I am happy to report that four of my poems have just been published in BlazeVOX Winter 2011 issue!: "Night Traveler", "In A Dream", "Mr. Lepus At Night", and "Going in Order." A huge thank you to editor Geoffrey Gatza, and always a huge thank you to everyone who reads and appreciates my work!
http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/journal/
Happening
two islands in the middle of
the swamp
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mud on the rocks
not over ice
alligator
square dancing with
a heron
palm trees
fiddling moonlight
magnolias
evoking
lunar tides.
Copyright 2011 Julie Kovacs.
Non-Policed Life
Nondescript life
rows and rows of houses spanning the entire city block
red white blue
all with flawless lush green leaves
white picket fences
and a small doghouse off to the side of the yard.
Beyond the city block lay
the one sole house that looked different from all the others
a castle in the Victorian house style
four turrets
elaborately carved frame around the porch
four stories high
pale blue in color.
The one man who lived there
reputed to be a magician
not the stage variety either
had only one sole housemate
some say it is his granddaughter
others say it is a very young wife
who has no family of her own.
As quietly as they lived surrounded by trees
flowering bushes and the biggest garden in the city
nobody ever saw them in town much
yet the unusual couple were happy together
not burdened by the worries other families in the city seemed to have
mortgages children keeping up with Joneses.
Perfectly happy with what they had
each other
no fighting yelling or screaming
a lifestyle well suited to them
with no one to interfere
tell them what to do or how to do it
no policing meant peace and happiness.
Copyright 2011 Julie Kovacs
Seurat in Spring
{ – libretto singing cat
! --M'appari tut'amor –}
Von Flotow doesn't hear any meows
the light, airy romp through the spring garden
French daintiness
avec biftek et pomme de terre des frites
Post-Impressionism of Seurat hanging above a wall
encased by a heavily gilded frame
a bowl of fruit on the table in front of a majestic
velvet covered chair
her royal Persian furry highness approves
the emerald tiara placed upon her head
which matches her gem encrusted collar.
Copyright 2011 Julie Kovacs.
I would like to thank Raymond Farr for publishing my poems in the Fall 2011 issue of Blue and Yellow Dog:
No Glass Ceiling
Headstrong Butterfly
Nights in Darkness
I hope all my readers enjoy these poems, and as usual, a huge, huge thank you to everyone who has read my poetry since late 2006 and enjoyed it.
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