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  • Holiday Song, and: I’ll Cross That Bridge–
  • Ethel Rackin (bio)

Holiday Song

O holidays, the suburbs are lovelySuch lonely suburbs of snowHoliday fish find a ranchIn the suburbsOr die cast in the snowIn the suburbsFish too on holidayO suburban set, snowRanch holidays lonelyO holidays, ranch-like fish, snowA fish or two in the suburbsHolidays set in snow [End Page 151]

I’ll Cross That Bridge—

When I come to itThat selfsame bridgeThat spans the strait—so blue—Stopping for time to collect thingsAnd pretending to be with youI’ll hand off this blue planetRight here in the broad sun—When daylight comes, it comes [End Page 152]

Ethel Rackin

Ethel Rackin is the author of The Forever Notes (Parlor Press, 2012), recently reviewed in Ploughshares and Jacket 2. Her poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as the American Poetry Review, Court Green, Evergreen Review, Kestrel, Poetry East, Verse Daily, and Volt. She lives in Pennsylvania, where she is an associate professor at Bucks County Community College.

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