Margins

…and the talk is constant, on rifles, rattlesnakes, hunting leases, bullets that fly over walls, drop on the other side and explode ….

…chin in hands, I sip the flat coffee, and eat a sweet roll ….

…wind pushes dust, traffic rushes ….

…and the rifles, rattlesnakes, hunting leases and the social bullets could be computer-programs, literary analysis, window installation ….

…those margins, from the impersonal at the coffee yard, to the personal with the daughters and their moody children ….

…a decent location, there, on the margins, edges, perifery ….

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About Gene Novogrodsky

Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky has lived in the Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville for 21 years. He is a co-founder of the Narciso Maritinez Cultural Arts Center Writers Forum in San Benito. He says he has rarely been published; he fears rejection! Instead he loves to read his work in Savory Perks, in the Writers forum, and the Valley International Poetry Festival events. What he enjoys most is reading to several friends, or even strangers in small groups. He is married to his friend and companion, Ruth E. Wagner, who is also a poet and craftsperson. He does write letters to both print and online publications and has been a good friend to Writers of the Rio Grande.