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Aire Celeste Norell's work has appeared in The Blue House, Matrix (Germany), and San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly. She has been anthologized in Literary Angles: The Second Year of poeticdiversity (2005, Sybaritic Press) and The Other Side of Sorrow: Poets Speak Out about Conflict, War, and Peace (2006, Poetry Society of New Hampshire).
In 2004 she put together her first poetry chapbook, The Ugly Duckling & Other American Tragedies. In the same year, she edited and published an anthology (on tree-free paper using soy ink) of environmental poetry, Cracked Pavement & Plastic Trees: Our Gifts To Future Generations.
Aire has been a featured performer at a number of poetry readings and other venues across L.A. and Orange County. She is also guilty of compulsively organizing poetry/music/dance events for good causes. Her day job is tutoring "low income, at risk" youth.
For information about her upcoming scheduled appearances, as well as to read more of her work, please visit her website.
www.aireceleste.com
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Animal Games |
I wanna fuck you like an animal...
—Trent Reznor
let's play
predator and prey
stalking, striking,
sucking out juice
let's play
lion cubs practicing
our pounce-and-swat
tails twitching
as we stare at one another
in suspenseful stillness
let's play
dogs greeting strangers
sniffing who's friendly
and who's been where
let's play
snakes entwined
rolling heedless down hills
in an endless spiral
let's play
parasite and host
thirsting, quenching,
burrowing in for blood
let's play
barnacle and wave
the impenetrable one
opening at the slap of
overwhelming wetness
copyright 2006
Aire Celeste Norell |
