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Rainy Faye Bookstore, the only independent bookstore in downtown Bridgeport, CT, is closing its doors later this fall. If you can, make a call today to order your copy of "The Lily & The Aster". If you do so soon, you'll get a special discount! Support local business.

Winner of Poetry Prize at the 34th Annual Trumbull Arts Festival

On September 16, 2012 I will be honored for poems submitted for the 34th Annual Trumbull Arts Festival. I will be honored among other winners of the literary contest at the Trumbull Town Hall Green in Trumbull, CT at the aforementioned date. The poems submitted for the event will likely appear in my fourth book of poetry, now in production. For details about the event, see the link below:

http://www.jaminmark.com/eventinfo/events/30270.html

Here are the three winning poems from the contest:

AWAKE

She was up before he would awake.

And he awoke and cleared the blur

From his eyes.

He saw her as if for the first time.

While her beauty was apparent,

Seared in his memory were last

Night’s tears – his own –

For the certainty of a delicate

Thing  broken.

Like the soundless flutter

Of a sparrow’s wings, he

Cried.

For shadows of yesterday’s

Shared intimacy, he cried.

And she failed to acknowledge

Her part.

He mourned her absence

Long before they parted ways.

HAUNTED

I am haunted by his earnest efforts

For he knows me. I am not just

A vague sketch lining the outskirts

Of his consciousness, but rather

A course of being he knows by heart.

For he reveals those things about me

I was not aware of until they came

Out of his mouth.

He spoke about my beauty, my eloquence,

My uniqueness and my being whole.

His words complete the puzzle that

Erode my need. He holds up the mirror.

He is not a god-fearing or god-filled man,

But rather like one.  And strong.

DELUSION’S KISS

Hope squanderer

Bloom crusher

Dream’s abscess

Guru

Yesterday’s news

Deal breaker

Trouble maker

Game changer

Stirring of pots

Goal dasher

My downfall

The only contender

Obstacle

Challenger

Weakness

Makes me whole