Jayne Lyn Stahl's Writings
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Poem
Oct.12.2008
Poetry Magazine (online)
in this city that isnot just a ghost, buta fractured ghostthose who run onhigher octane never stop torefuel, but proceed tonearest terminal. in this city hasidic fear ispalpable wherehungry nurses rollthe dice behindhoboken moon wheredeath hides in a doorway grinninganother sky-scraper drops billboards singnet prophets hawklaptops terror lurks inninety-...
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Poem
Oct.11.2008
Jack Magazine
For Sally Weisbord (“Aunt Sally”)
“Et lux in tenebris lucet”
“and the light shineth in darkness.”
from John i, 1-5
Sally --
You never got to dance at my wedding
& I never got to
eat those latkes you promised to make for me. standing at
santa...
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Poem
Oct.09.2008
"Riding With Destiny"
To sit
in
a
dead man's
chair
if only to
know
life
escaped from
him, too
and
to think
he is putting
the roof
on
my house
in
the other
world.
copyright Jayne Lyn Stahl 10/7/08
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Poem
Oct.06.2008
Poetry Magazine (online)
this is how it starts
rhapsodic –
rain pouring
on the roof
like no
tomorrow
like yesterday’s thunder
old news.
this is how
it starts
paned &
painless
windows open
spineless clouds
breaking through.
what propels us
compels only quiet –
a city in search of itself
a rider that is only
half horse.
this is how
without purpose
the rain urges
razor sharp...
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Article
Oct.06.2008
Lady Jane's Blog
“History is a responsibility Americans would rather not face.” Octavio Paz
After several weeks of detention in a Karachi cell, journalist Daniel Pearl was videotaped before his execution, and given the chance to make a statement. Among the last things he had to say was that he sympathized with those captured, and held, in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
Most of...
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Article
Oct.06.2008
"Nuestra Voz;" a publication of International PEN Women's Writers' Conference
A lot can happen in two weeks: in two weeks we go to the polls in what will be a crucial election. On November 2nd, we get to opt for regime change in Washington, and possibly eliminate what history may someday view as the greatest weapon of mass destruction the world has to worry about today –the man who is currently sitting in the White House...
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Poem
Oct.05.2008
Lummox Journal
Death taps me on the shoulder this morning, and says
“we need to talk.”
“indeed we do,” I say, & stare him squarely in
the jaw. “What have you been doing with
yourself,” I ask.
“managing gravity,” says he, “speaking of
which you’ve been avoiding me.”
“averting, not avoiding,” says me.
“that’s semantics,”...
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Poem
Oct.05.2008
The Ginosko Review
for Michael McClure
Astonished as
glass shattered by
the roadside
I watch sleep
escape from you
raw as a lover
fresh from
bed. you remember
the
passing of
another
like a walk in
a dangerous
park
or fire in
a foreign
tongue
a substance you
have yet to
receive
your beauty
the makeshift
mattress from which
you descend
a room that is...
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Poem
Oct.05.2008
Oakland Out Loud (anthology of poetry from PEN Oakland)
“Tell me at what hour I need
to be carried aboard.”
Jean-Arthur Rimbaud
they took your blood
for free
they took your blood to sample like wine
on the ship that left without you
still wild
birds amass on your Africa where
scent of your century hides
still rooms to let
on streets of
savage inquiry.
we wait like...
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Poem
Oct.05.2008
Poetry Magazine (online)
I can feel you between
my thighs like
a flash of
light on
dark pavement.
I can smell your
sweat on
the palm of
my hand all that’s left
an impulse
like salt on
a stunning wound
this memory
a harbor without
boats still
bearing a flash of
light.
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About Jayne
My full name is Jayne Lyn Stahl.
Widely published poet, and essayist---Huffington Post blogger, with screenplay, "Shakespeare & Company," that tells the story of Sylvia Beach's struggle to publish James Joyce's "Ulysses," currently in development.
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Connections
Causes Jayne Stahl Supports
Free Speech, human rights, and abolition of the death penalty.
Jayne’s Favorite Books
"Crime and Punishment," Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Ulysses," James Joyce "Dead Souls," Gogol "The Trial," Franz Kafka "Thus Spake Zarathustra," Friedrich Nietzsche "...