Ellaraine Lockie

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TITLE="http://versewisconsin.org/Issue103/revie"><U><I>Verse Wisconsin</I></U></A><A HREF="http://versewisconsin.org/Issue103/reviews103/lockie.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://versewisconsin.org/Issue103/revie"><U> Online.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Chosen Best Individual Collection of the Year </div> <div> for 2010 by Purple Patch in England.</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Sexed on a Kona Balcony</B></div> <bR> <div> All his lovers have fed the birds he says</div> <div> This is after I've sprinkled the balcony</div> <div> with pieces of pancake</div> <bR> <div> Well, we can't help it</div> <div> Our wombs command the role</div> <div> as surely as the moon dictates the slap</div> <div> of waves against lava rock below the hotel</div> <bR> <div> We are hardwired to feed hunger, if not in children</div> <div> then in pets, plants and wild things</div> <div> I especially like the wild ones</div> <div> The touch between feral and female</div> <div> A scrap becoming energy that burns in both directions</div> <bR> <div> The myna who is empowered to squawk and walk </div> <div> the perimeter as if giving orders</div> <div> Zebra doves too dumb or smart to pay attention</div> <div> House sparrows hopping like wind-up toys</div> <div> as they pick up pieces for babies in a nearby palm</div> <bR> <div> All of them fueling to follow their own destinies</div> <div> And me with the same small flame that must have</div> <div> kindled Annapurna when she filled Shiva's begging bowl</div> <div> It burns through my morning bath</div> <bR> <div> When I come out wrapped in a towel </div> <div> to find more food for the birds</div> <div> A saffron finch with fluorescent head </div> <div> is eating macadamia nuts </div> <bR> <div> that my man chopped with his pocket knife</div> <div> He calls it male bonding</div> <div> The nuts are coffee-coated, sugared and salted </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1c78dca0.jpg" border=0 width="141" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Ellaraine Lockie writes poetry, nonfiction books and essays. She has authored a poetry/art broadside, <I>Mod Gods and Luggage Straps</I>, BrickBat Revue, and five previous chapbook collections:  <I>Midlife Muse</I>, Poetry Forum; <I>Crossing the Center Line</I>, Sweet Annie Press; <I>Coloring Outside the Lines</I>, The Plowman Press; <I>Finishing Lines</I>, Snark Publishing; <I>and Blue Ribbons at the County Fair</I>, PWJ Publishing.  Among many other awards, she has received the Writecorner Press Poetry Prize, the Skysaje Poetry Prize, the Lois Beebe Hayna Award from <I>The Eleventh Muse</I>, the Elizabeth R. Curry Prize from <I>SLAB</I> and has won the San Francisco Writers' Conference Poetry Contest.  She also teaches school and community poetry workshops.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1c540f00.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> STROKING DAVID'S LEG</div> <div> is a 40 page hand-stitched chapbook.</div> <div> $10.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                               </div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada        <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Stroking David's Leg"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-15"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Stroking David's Leg"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-15"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>       </div> <bR> <bR> <div>      <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>