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Private Dining Under a Blouse In the middle of our conversation and the din of the large dining room she lifted her blouse her baby blindly grabbing her nipple With his mouth, the blouse covered him like a shroud for private dining. I saw the infant emerge sleeping held in an untroubled dream. I sucked on my straw Flattening the plastic stem Still awake And troubled. ©Doug Holder |
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"Private Dining Under a Blouse" is from an unpublished manuscript "The Man In The Booth in the Midtown Tunnel." Doug Holder's work has appeared in the Istanbul Literary Review, Best Poem, Poetrybay, Rattle, Caesure, Cafe Review, Autumn Sky and many others... He is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press of Somerville, Mass. |