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Told with pith, wit, and full of desire and heat, these poems seek to understand and forgive. In the wildly self-aware poem, \u201cEVELYN\u2019S BEDROOM WHILE EVELYN WATCHED TV &amp; ATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH ICE CREAM OUT OF THE CONTAINER,\u201d Conroy\u2019s speaker says, \u201cUpset? I wasn\u2019t upset. I was hysterical. \/Inconsolable. Overly emotional. Wrecked. \/\/Then I got over it,\u201d and when in the final poem, \u201cOnly Idiots Get Tattoos,\u201d she writes, \u201cMy favorite tattoo\u2019s\/ the one on the back of my neck in memory of my father\u2019s\/ passing: an upturned horseshoe, carried up, by wings\u201d we know how hard won, how complex the journey has been, and, too, that the next leg of the poet\u2019s journey has only just begun. Conroy\u2019s searing, musically charged poems, dirty, hopeful, and sometimes cuttingly funny, will please and illumine with singular muscularity and a dash of black mascara.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Laura McCullough<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"Flower Conroy is a poet who relishes with equal ferocity the \"cheese grater hood\" of the blasted ceiling overhead and the bent light of the sky beyond it. She writes with a sly and angular directness, holding up to our startled scrutiny objects suddenly aglow with pain, with rash choices, with small, unforgettable and brilliantly torqued stories. In poem after poem, with fearless, whacked power and visceral clarity, she explores and celebrates facets of reality most of us fail to notice.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Catherine Doty<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Flower Conroy<\/strong>'s poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including\u00a0<em>Serving House Journal, BlazeVox, Saw Palm, American Literary Review, Psychic Meatloaf, Cliterature<\/em>, and others. She is currently an MFA student at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She is an only child and a Pisces and her favorite color is green. Originally from New Jersey, she now lives in Key West, FL.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs_desc_698_2\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<P><strong>Apple Core of My Father's Eye<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nAt birth: some babies are relieved to be born,<BR>\r\nfreed from their claustrophobic sleeping bags.<BR>\r\nSome resemble reptiles or snowmen or plucked<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\npoultry waiting to be buttered &amp; salted.<BR>\r\nSome drool old fools\u2019 gummy smiles<BR>\r\ntickled by their own gaseous trampolines.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nOther newborns automatically mourn<BR>\r\ntheir ejection &amp; only want to worm back-<BR>\r\nwards into their snail shell corridors,<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\ninto that dark cardinal slime.<BR>\r\nWhen I was born I summoned with me evening<BR>\r\n&amp; hail: interrupted a Friday night poker game<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n&amp; dinner of Cornish hen. Storm relieved it-<BR>\r\nself. In the nursery, I peered into the barrel<BR>\r\nof the camera\u2014into the glare of bent light<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\non the lens like a sliver of silver\u2014into that<BR>\r\nother\u2019s unseen eye on the far side of the glass<BR>\r\nframe. I can\u2019t remember what shucked<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nthought germinated just then\u2014<EM>you translated<BR>\r\nmy name from girl<\/EM>\u2014when piercing flash<BR>\r\nentered me\u2014bullet\u2014or crossbow\u2019s arrow.<\/P>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<P><strong>You'd Be Surprised How Fast a Flying Pig Can Fly<\/STRONG><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nMy father rode a pterodactyl<BR>\r\n&amp; shot the last flying pig.<BR>\r\nIn his presence, quarters<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nwould fall from my ears.<BR>\r\nWith a \u2018poose\u2019 he\u2019d ill-<BR>\r\numinate the interior car<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nlight; another \u2018poose\u2019<BR>\r\n&amp; it\u2019d go dark. \u2018Poose\u2019 light;<BR>\r\n\u2018poose\u2019 dark. I think he<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\ndwelled in dark. Even sheltered<BR>\r\nin the snow-lit Pine Barrens,<BR>\r\na gun in his lap, dark<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\ncocooned him. Would you<BR>\r\ncall it tortured? Stormy<BR>\r\nnights our little family\u2019d<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\ndrive onto the sand &amp; watch<BR>\r\nlightning impale ocean.<BR>\r\nSoundtrack of thunder.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nShattering waves, radio<BR>\r\nhollering, <EM>Have you ever seen<BR>\r\nthe rain, coming down?<\/EM><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nLike a storm of glass. Once, while<BR>\r\nhunting, my father spied with<BR>\r\nhis good blue eye, the Jersey<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nDevil skulking around<BR>\r\nlike a giant deer<BR>\r\n&amp; fired. The Devil<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nlooked dead<BR>\r\nat him before returning<BR>\r\ninto the heart<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nof the woods, its black veins,<BR>\r\nits shadowed chambers, its<BR>\r\nevergreen circulatory system.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nWhen dusk collapsed<BR>\r\nhe made his way back<BR>\r\nto the cabin. When he spoke<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nabout what really happened<BR>\r\nout there, he spoke about<BR>\r\ngrazing the Jersey Devil<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nwith a silver bullet. Fear-<BR>\r\nless. He rode a pterodactyl<BR>\r\ninto the side of a used car<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nlot, blinded by sun.<BR>\r\nThe last flying pig? 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