A full-length poetry collection by Victoria Hallerman,

winner of Bright Hill Press's 2003 Poetry Book Competition,

Summer 2005. Learn more / get the book>

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Surfaces

In a dark theater masked lovers are kissing,
figures immobile at a walk light.
Gold-winged Gabriel knees at table edge to whisper:
there’s a bomb on the kitchen counter.
At open French windows the blue girl gazes on the pale green
mermaids of a North Dakota riverbank.
This woman’s face is tight as a Brazil nut.
Give me truths, for I am weary of the surfaces.

—Victoria Hallerman

Reprinted by permission of Bright Hill Press

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The poet is the author

of this memoir and

self-help book for the

wives and partners of

men who are dealing

with prostate cancer.

Learn more at:

www.victoriahallerman.com

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