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Issue # 8 September 2012
"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Bio


Charmaine Thomson lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Charmaine has studied performance music and education in the past. She has been published in New Zealand and United States publications including the 4th Floor Literary Journal, a fine line, The Blackmail Press, The Shot Glass Journal and the Fib Review. She is interested in exploring the connections between composition and modern languages. In 2012 she published her first collection of poems, Licorice, as a paperback and as an e book on Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/
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Charmaine Thomson


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He makes me

wear an undercover coat
to hide a torrent
of unnecessary words

catch
that stethoscope breath
as a sly party trick

taste
his disarmed spine
and sing to all
his tender sinews

rise
recollecting
slowly