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Driving the Train

Nail polish off, PATH jacket on, he's ready to leave behind Nail polish off, PATH jacket on, he's ready to leave behind the clothes that fit his...
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, The, 03/01/07 by Minnie Bruce Pratt · More from publication
Standing in the Elevator

Standing in the Elevator Standing in the Elevator There's the awkward moment when the elevator doors close, and we try not to breathe as...
Progressive, The, 01/01/07 by Minnie Bruce Pratt · More from publication
Retirement

She is still knitting even as her mind drops a stitch every few seconds. She rips out rows of garbled yarn in a fury. She says to her daughter: I...
American Poetry Review, The, 11/01/04 by Pratt, Minnie Bruce · More from publication
Opening the Mail

for Kriste Grubbs at UIU She used to work down in the copy center, and, don't get her wrong, she liked it, she did. The big xerox engines purred,...
American Poetry Review, The, 11/01/04 by Pratt, Minnie Bruce · More from publication
Playing the Guitar Underground

with homage to the art of Ruben Trejo and Ray Martin Abeyta The man with the guitar sings mi pobre corazon, his heart and an empty hat at his feet...
American Poetry Review, The, 11/01/04 by Pratt, Minnie Bruce · More from publication
Unemployment Office: Dismissed by the Machine, The

I stood in line with my friend until that was wrong. The guard said punch in by phone, over there. The women said, Going to get my pennies, and...
American Poetry Review, The, 11/01/04 by Pratt, Minnie Bruce · More from publication

Learning to Walk.(Poem)

Learning to Walk The sparkling water, the red tug pushing a long flat barge. Low land rises to aluminum, prefab concrete, glass, pale...
Prairie Schooner, 06/22/04 by Pratt, Minnie Bruce · More from publication
Hooking Up the Power.(Poem)

Hooking Up the Power The yellow crane lowers its neck, its beak, its hook. A man on the ground talks to a man at the gears, his hands ...
Prairie Schooner, 06/22/04 by Pratt, Minnie Bruce · More from publication
Opening the book on tomorrow

John Finley died the week after our call, his mother said, as if he'd John Finley died the week after our call, his mother said, as if he'd just...
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, The, 03/01/04 by Minnie Bruce Pratt · More from publication
Best of Margaret Mitchell to be Revealed, The

And she had wanted to bite. She was tired of polite letters to the editor, two hundred fifty words, no more, in columns like ornamental borders,...
Off Our Backs, 08/01/99 by Pratt, Minnie Bruce · More from publication