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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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Reaching Out With Righteous Arms |
are you trying to give me a jesus complex
when you laugh at me for being kind?
why not hype me like king or gandhi
since i sacrifice to avoid harm?
i would rather go malcolm on you
scare you into compassion
if vegans carried long black rifles
you wouldn't dare cram pigs into boxcars
or tie down calves in crates
you'd take all the dogs & cats home with you
instead of injecting them with poison
and discarding their corpses in garbage bags
though i sit here calmly like buddha
must i lovingly hug you—
your body faintly exuding the rot of animals
who have at last found peace in your belly?
copyright 2006
Aire Celeste Norell |
