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Phillip Larrea

Photograph by Keith Moul

HONEYBEES By Phillip Larrea And we're off! Well... not quite. Keys? Lipstick? Sedatives? Never mind. Seems we're stuck. We'll make like honeybees when it rains. TILT By Phillip Larrea Pregnant pause looks askance distrusts me but amused even charmed dares not laugh forward bust cockeyed grin power joust

Meditation by Anita Scharf

ALLEGRA By Phillip Larrea Allegra. Senior chick. Sexy still. Eighty-two. Out dancing. In birkies. Eats yogurt, Red meat. Drinks Sun sweet tea. –This piece first appeared in Four Plays.

Sleepy Lion by Anita Scharf

COMMITMENT By Phillip Larrea My hat says, "Marry me." Commitment. With this band I am bound to hat hair. Slightly frayed. Worse for wear. Still— I do. –This piece first appeared in The Artistic Muse. JOIN THE CLUB By Phillip Larrea Love women. Honor them quarterly. Hispanics gays and blacks, all have clubs. I've joined a one-man band. I sing lead. Phillip Larrea Phillip Larrea is the author of We the People (Cold River Press) and Our Patch (Writing Knights Press). Since 2012, his poems have appeared in over 70 journals, anthologies and magazines in the U.S., Ireland, Canada and Asia. He is the winner of the 2013 New Frontier Prize for poetry. Phillip has created an original short form he calls the tricube. These are poems with three stanzas, three lines per stanza, and three syllables per line. The above poems follow this form.

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