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Joanna Cattonar


She Never Forgets

she never forgets the wound
she never forgets the fleeing

the blister of her mind raw
with someone's screaming

at times she's good as a stone
at times she's one hell of a liar

but none of it really works

she never stops seeing them
turn as they finish with her

so sometimes she simply waits
till it all falls away and fades

sometimes she feels pretty human
sometimes she feels almost saved

under the spell of forgetting
beneath that cold secret veil

one thing the raped child knows
what counts is living to tell




Two

So long, good-bye to all the rest,
now that I have you where
your heart against my breast

keeps me awake. Caressed
to sleep, lost in my arms, you bear
your heart against my breast,

your lips pressed
breathing softly in my hair.
So long, good-bye to all the rest

I never asked for, the loneliest
nights and days before you, the fear
your heart against my breast

was far too much to yearn for or express.
Now this. This sweet. This dear.
So long to all the rest

who cannot know how blessed
we are, who'd never guess.
Two simple girls. Two kids. Won't last.
Good-bye for good to all the rest.

































AUTHOR BIO

Joanna Cattonar is an Italian American native New Yorker whose attendance at PS 93, JHS 123, and Walton HS in the Bronx prepared her well for life as a scholarship student at Vassar College where she graduated fifty years ago. Her poetry has been published widely since then in diverse journals past and present, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Puerto del Sol, Gallimaufry, The Southern Poetry Review, The Burning Bush, Epoch, The San Marcos Review, and Poetry Northwest.

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Liz Ahl
Shaune Bornholdt
Rebecca Guess Cantor
Joanna Cattonar
Claudia Gary
Carrie Jerrell (Featured Poet)
Ann Kolakowski
Jenna Le
Diane Lockward
Barbara Loots
Kathleen McClung
Susan McLean
Angela O'Donnell
Jessica Piazza
Rosemarie Rowley
Maxine Silverman
Katherine Smith
Linda Stern
Karrie Waarala
Marly Youmans

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