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Still Life
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My ex-wife may be anywhere now,
but I always picture her
sitting down to coffee
on the porch of a beachfront home.
On the table, draped with linen,
a pail of yellow roses,
a bowl of sliced cantaloupes,
oranges and limes. Gazing
out at evening surf, she fingers
a string of pearls. And the man
she waits for isn't me.
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Writer
Bio
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David Starkey is the author of a textbook, Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations (NTC, 1999); several collections of poetry from small presses, including Open Mike Night at the Cabaret Voltaire (Kings Estate Press, 1996), Starkey's Book of States (Boson Books, 1995), and Koan Americana (Colonial Press, 1992); and three chapbooks, Adventures of The Minor Poet (I*D Books, 1994), A Year with Gayle, and Others (Runaway Spoon Press, 1993), and Fear of Everything, the winner of Palanquin Press's Spring 2000 chapbook contest. He has also edited or co-edited several books, including Teaching Writing Creatively (Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1998), Smokestacks and Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing (Loyola Press, 1999), In Praise of Pedagogy (Calendar Islands, 2000), and Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach (Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2001). He lives in Santa Barbara, California, and teaches in the MFA Program at Antioch University--Los Angeles.
starkey_d@hotmail.com
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