Marilyn Kallet's Writings
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Poem
Nov.12.2008
How to Get Heat Without Fire, forthcoming as well in Packing Light: New and Selected Poems
Bad Sex
"There's no such thing as bad whiskey or bad sex." Roland Flint
We were screamers that year.
Gina, the lady downstairs,
told me when we woke her and her truck-driving boyfriend,
she'd get angry with him about our shaking the house--
"Why can't you do that for me?"
1970, a year Reich would have envied.
Beethoven's Ninth in...
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Poem
Aug.05.2008
Hot off the press--unpublished
CONFINED
Honestly, Charles has worn me out.
I won't be sorry to find my bed.
He can whine more than fat little William.
With his misery of headaches and chills,
how did he survive Rio Negro
and Cape Horn? His father was deadset,
"No!" The sea looks shiftless on a resume.
Charles claims our house is...
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Poem
Jul.31.2008
CIRCE, AFTER HOURS, BkMk Press, UMKC
CIRCE, DID YOU?
Circe, like those siren sisters you warned of,did you croon men to your shore?Did you surround sound sailors with silky hiarand nipples? Oooh, when you stroked themwith syllables, did it matter to your tonguewho they were? Or were you waiting for one,Odysseus, with his many-skilled fingers?In the ruby-tipped dawn did you hold outfor the master...
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"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."”
—William Blake
About Marilyn
Marilyn Kallet was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up in New York. She is the author of 16 books, including The Love That Moves Me (poetry); Packing Light: New and Selected Poems, Black Widow Press; Circe, After Hours, poetry from BkMk Press; The...
Connections
Causes Marilyn Kallet Supports
Southern Poverty Law Center, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, ACLU, Amnesty International, Save Darfur.