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Eve Is an Echo
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Offers to tell
for the hundredth time
the story of the lazy apple.
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Plays the game
of telling and retelling
the tale of the Great Bungle.
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Amuses herself
by keeping
an enormous chronicle.
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Insists on leaving
the temporary oasis
by walking backwards.
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Eve Pounds Keys
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Eve pounds keys
at the typewriter
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until a wave of nausea
washes over her.
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Young Cain looks
at the pounding
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with fascination
a dozen times a day.
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A large ivy-covered
water tower, terraced into
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one side of the mountain,
is used for rural broadcasting
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and amateur radio
announcements.
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Harlot
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Eve is up
to her neck
in curses.
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She calls on desire
and gets no response.
Eve senses
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her Goddess passing.
Could be the last
of the human race.
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Author of Eve Would Know (2017), published by Kelsay Books, Joanne Leva is founder of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Tekpoet, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva's poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, Peace is a Haiku Song (The Foundry Books), 50 Over Fifty (PS Books), and Schuylkill Valley Journal, among others.
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