Category Archives: poetry

Stevieslaw: Don’t Get Too Comfortable

Posted on October 31, 2016 by stevieslaw

  by Steven Deutsch   Don’t Get Too Comfortable When I was five or six my brother told me I was swapped at birth. “Dad liked the idea of two boys,” he said one night, in the tenement room we … Continue reading →

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Dear Brueghel-just appeared in the Ekphrastic Review

Posted on October 1, 2016 by stevieslaw

Venus Frigida, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish), 1614. Dear Brueghel, by Steve Deutsch Venus Frigida, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish), 1614. Dear Brueghel, Stop by at your good time to see the piece. I’ve named it Venus Frigida. It turns … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: The Persistence of Memory

Posted on July 20, 2016 by stevieslaw

The Persistence of Memory And there it is, something sweet from who knows where– an arrival as unsuspected as finding, upon your doorstep, something old and dear you never knew you’d lost.

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Stevieslaw: My Imaginary Skill–Silver Birch Press

Posted on June 17, 2016 by stevieslaw

My future in DIY, poem by Steven Deutsch (MY IMAGINARY SKILL Poetry & Prose Series) June 17, 2016 // I will be that guy. I swear it. The one that people call when the whoosis is stuck or when that … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: Searching

Posted on May 2, 2016 by stevieslaw

Searching I always thought the iPhone the most human of devices. I named mine George. Like an overeager child George buzzes when engaged. Spent, he recharges to the sixty second cycle of a resting heart. Last night in a hotel … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: Interview with the cub reporter in the Blue Moon Diner

Posted on March 5, 2016 by stevieslaw

To accompany Dinor Bleu: The Vanishing American Diner–Photographs by Chuck Fong at the Bellefonte Art Museum, our poetry group gave a recital of “diner” poems and stories entitled Blue Plate Special. A booklet of the poems and excerpts from the … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: The Hour When the Ship Comes In

Posted on October 28, 2015 by stevieslaw

Inspiration It blew in against the tide with so little fanfare that it startled the longshoremen who had taken to rust in the salt air. Smiles of self-congratulation rivalled the blaze of the setting sun. “To patience and perseverance,” trumpeted … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: JFK and Robert Frost

Posted on October 1, 2015 by stevieslaw

Stevieslaw: JFK and Robert Frost After a truly horrible afternoon, here at Stevieslaw, I was leafing through “The Poets Laureate Anthology” and got sidetracked by the introduction by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt. Ms. Schmidt’s introduction deals with poetry and politics, as … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: Tea Ceremony

Posted on June 21, 2015 by stevieslaw

Tea Ceremony Sunday morning breakfast was as close as we could come to sacred ritual in our house. Mom slept in and dad would orchestrate in his best robe– the eggs here the butter there, and the coffee pot to … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw: Vietnam, 1968

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stevieslaw

When my brother held me upside down all the little lucky things came pebbling out of my pockets to land on the walk outside the marble yard on Hopkins Avenue. I knew I’d never get them together again. it was … Continue reading →

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