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enjoy this Peter Magliocco writing in the Down in the Dirt free 2011 PDF file chapbook: Ghost Dancers Leaping from a Tome (click on the front cover image or the title text to download the free PDF file)				You can also order this as a 2011 6" x 9" perfect-bound paperback ISBN# book! Click on the cover spread for the book Ghost Dancers Leaping from a Tome

the broken-down amusement park ride

Peter Magliocco

it trembles, time riding over us
with hooves silent as silicone
easing into a body cavity,
protoplasmic jelly-like
invisible cellular organisms
coagulated in the first dawn
blooming beneath the sea
when dying you take a ferry
on waves a naked eye descends
caressing her forbidden breast, O
brine goddess my sweet mermaid
swims after the fey craft,
priceless yacht once owned
by countless Hollywood stars
renting it out for the occasion
all good children sailing
(if in halting, chaotic wend
to that great pier salt-crusted
with saliva of past lovers
calling a warning from some-
where a great notion lives
still to contemplate our voyage
Hart Crane spawned it’s said,
bridging an unkind shore
before the jaded gondolier
cursing attempts to abuse us
in the name of missing fathers
somehow silent & drowned
by this shipwrecked dream)
in WWII my father clung to
a raft from torpedoed wreckage
as his sleep joins mine:
together we share
a raft going nowhere,
yet eternally spiraling back
into unclear fury
of wars’ unknown
beginnings

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