Artist Bio:
Janet Butler teaches Test Prep in San Francisco and lives in Alameda with Fulmi, a lovely Spaniel mix she rescued in Italy. where she lived for many years, and brought back with her. Some current or forthcoming publications are Pirene's Fountain, The Chaffey Review, The Rampallian, Miller's Pond, Poetalk, and Ascent Aspirations. "Searching for Eden" was published by Finishing Line Press in January, 2012. "Upheaval" was one of three winning selections in Red Ochre Lit's 2012 Chapbook Contest. One of her drawings was chosen as cover art for the Winter, 2013 issue of Poetalk, the poetry journal of the Berkeley Bay Area Poets' Coalition.
She smiles, anxious, as she strains
to hear the unsaid
mimics the minuet he abandons
mid-dance
gliding with practiced steps
to a distant tune
where he falls in with nonchalance
to new moves
a bow and a scrape to other dreams
while hers settle in dust around her.
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