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February. 2009:
Jerry Judge | 9 Poems |
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| 1. Rhythm |
| 2. Writing at the Waffle House |
| 3. 27 Million Shoes |
| 4. The Hiding Game |
| 5. Translation |
| 6. Absent Without Leave |
| 7. December 7, 1996 |
| 8. My Only Groupie Attacked by Vicious Garage Door |
| 9. The Last Poem |
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Jerry Judge is the author of six collections of poetry. His latest works are Luna Moth (2008 – Finishing Line Press) and Outlaw Poet (Pudding House – 2008). His poems have been published in several anthologies and a variety of journals including New York Quarterly, Pudding, Main Street Rag, Nerve Cowboy, Poetry Depth Quarterly, American Tanka, Chiron Review and Writer’s Journal. He is a former President of the Greater Cincinnati Writers’ League, and he’s active in writing events around the region. He works for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati and lives in Cincinnati with a gorgeous wife, three royal cats and one rambunctious dog. He has two grown sons – Nick, a firefighter/medic, and Devin, a student at Ohio State University.
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Download Jerry Judge Broadside Poster "Rhythm" |
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My Only Groupie Assaulted
by a Vicious Garage Door
for Diane
(first published in Outlaw Poet by Jerry Judge, 2008, Pudding House Publications)
She won’t be able to attend
poetry readings for all too long.
I grieve for her and myself.
We’ve never met; poetry groupies
are shy and unlike those women and men
who follow rock bands and evangelical preachers.
They love the words, not the poets.
I know of her only through a third party.
Perhaps certain sonnets or rhymed couplets
start a strumming within her, a connection
to the Other that will last for weeks.
When I read, I imagine her smiling
inviting the words to stay for sweet tea.
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