Denise Miller Bio: Denise Amodeo Miller is a poet, writer and teacher living in Kenmore, NY. A graduate of both Buffalo State and Medaille Colleges, she re-ignited her love of writing in Fall 2006, when she joined The Buffalo Writers Meetup Group. Her award winning poetry appears in Sol Magazine, and in two local anthologies, Just Buffalo Literary Center's Buffalo Anthology - Spring 2008 and Trees of Surprise - Fall 2007. On a balmy Buffalo springtime day (It's not Alaska, ya know, people! We do get some terrific weather), she enjoyed performing her poetry at Buffalo's Largest Live Poetry Event, Urban Epiphany 2007, which can be heard at Think Twice Radio. To learn more about Denise and her poetry, check out her website. Poems: The Richness of Beef My grandmother's roast beef was chewy rich with fat and juices roasted brown with carrots and celery celery with strings teeth flossed and tongue tested Ah, but the beef.... departed and primal carcass smelling of the porch swing enveloped in my father’s arms Jumbling the words on paper dreading the morning and wishing the meat frozen still God’s Almighty Wind Boy Feeling brave and new Knowing torment Knowing pain See the freshness of the dawn as Closeness calls to see him through He finds his solace in prayer He finds his savior He finds release She knows him now God beckons the righteous Screams with a mighty breath That tries to drown the noise of youth Yet heaven tastes like snow compared Together they are one Bound with palms pressed yet Instinct gives way to innocent Awashed in doubt and condemned He finds life twisted Grotesque Unrecognizable Mangled in loves wake Sinners come forth with no pretense No hesitation And he tries to say, “You do not know me” Without a word And so the bell rings solemnly alone Now he must be still He must atone He feels the need to reverberate newness Without leaving the flock Keeping near the one But he finds no way Reverting to more pain More wages More airlessness Down through the sludge The damp muddy ground below The life forces swirling Causing havoc and terror Tie the rope! Tighter to the limb Tie the rope!
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